—Require a therapist who believes a mental health patient made a credible threat to use a gun illegally to report the threat to a mental health director who would then have to report serious threats to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Would this violate doctor/patient confidentiality agreements? Wouldn't this erode any truth that the potential patient has with his therapist? If this is forced treatment who's to say they just won't lie? And this whole business of doctors reporting patients who they "feel" are a threat is scary in itself. One step further to a police state.
Would this violate doctor/patient confidentiality agreements? Wouldn't this erode any truth that the potential patient has with his therapist? If this is forced treatment who's to say they just won't lie? And this whole business of doctors reporting patients who they "feel" are a threat is scary in itself. One step further to a police state.