Are psychiatrists liable for accidents caused by patients?

As George Bush said in Washington D.C. on May 10, 2007:
“What I’m telling you is there’s too many junk lawsuits suing too many doctors.”

Psychiatrists can and DO lock innocent(of a crime) people up, because the psychiatrist believes them dangerous. With the power to lock up, I think they should take the responsibilty for releasing their prisoners. Otherwise don’t give psychiatrists the power to jail people.

“You are dishonest in referring to those confined for evaluation as “prisoners,” they aren’t. “

Sir James Coxe, a nineteenth-century English MP said in 1877: “I think it is a very hard case for a man to be locked up in an asylum and kept there; you may call it anything you like, but it is a prison.”

In what way are they not prisoners?
They can’t leave so it is a prison.

Szasz wrote {“Not surprisingly, psychiatrists resent being considered jailers. Confronted with the reality that the mental hospital is a prison and that the psychiatrist who works there is a jailer, they deceive themselves, no less than they deceive the public, with a rhetoric of “care.”}
They don’t have the right as convicts in many cases, such as the right to refuse medicine, or the right to an hour of outside/daylight, every day.

“Doctors cannot just order people held because they want to, and they can be held accountable for their decision to commit”
The case of Rodney Yoder held for 15 years.
w.semissourian.com/story.html$rec=154421
proves you wrong there.

90% of those accused of needing commitment get commited in Virginia. How does a mental patient contradict a psychiatrists opinion?
Kind of close to 100% conviction rate isn’t it?
w.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-now-supreme.jn22,0,7472294.story?coll=dp-news-local-final