How would anyone but the Dr. & the patient know that the Dr did not do his job in reporting this evil patient, if the Dr had not reported him?
For that matter why did my Dr feel the need to report the dogbite I had received from my dog that made the animal control folks try to take my doggy away? BTW you can keep all the Dr's that might report any American for anything but attempted homicide as far as I am concerned
This happened to be a case I was involved in. I have been an ER nurse for 14 years.
Patient came to ER with chronic pain requesting tons of narcotics.
The Dr said "No".
Patient made a silly remark about wanting to die if he didn't get his narc fix (which he had done so many times in the past).
Patient goes to a bar, gets drunk and rattles on about how the ER refused to give him tons of pain meds, then goes home.
Patient writes a long, drawn-out suicide note and kills himself.
Patient's family gets a hold of the letter and blames the ER for not helping the guy.
Patient's family calls Dewey, Cheatam and Howe to sue the awful ER Dr.
The Dr is a great guy, and also happens to be a Christian, Conservative, Pro 2 Gun guy (not that this really matters). Now has years of litigation and stress over the whole incident.
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If some knuckle-head wants to squawk to a Dr about suicide, the Doc can ignore it and probably get sued, or report the person and not get sued.
Which would you do?
Ever been sued?
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Re: Your "doggy".
I don't know the circumstances, but it sounds like you were bitten by your dog.
You sought treatment and the incident was report to animal control.
The majority of the cases go nowhere... unless Animal Control has a reason to want to "take someone's doggy away".
I don't even care to know why they wanted to do such a thing.
Not sure how this is even related to the 2nd Amendment.
Robert