Word: patient
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...psychiatry." The American Psychiatric Association agrees. Last week it submitted an amicus curiae brief for a rehearing of a case that is alarming psychotherapists across the country. By a 5-to-2 vote, the California Supreme Court recently ruled that doctors or psychotherapists who have reason to believe a patient may harm someone must notify the potential victim, his friends, relatives or the authorities...
...psychiatrists for $200,000 for failing to warn them or her about Poddar's threat. Alameda County Superior Court found no grounds for the suit, but the state supreme court's new ruling sends the case back to trial. Substance of that ruling: confidentiality between therapist and patient must yield "when a warning is necessary to prevent a violent attack." Moreover, therapists could be liable to civil damages, unless it can be shown that "sound professional judgment" was used...
Many, perhaps most, people who seek psychiatric help have some sort of destructive impulse, and their threats or wishes to see someone dead are routine and generally harmless ways of letting off steam. But many therapists wonder if juries will think so if a patient later really decides to kill someone. "It means," said Psychiatrist Robert L. Marvin of San Francisco, "that a jury can decide by hindsight whether a doctor has used the best professional judgment...
...prosecution alleges that in the course of the hysterotomy-type abortion, Edelin stood over the exposed womb of the 17-year-old patient with his hand in the uterus for a period of from three to five minutes, allowing the fetus to "suffocate...
...Rooney is a patient man. In the 42 years since he founded the Pittsburgh Steelers, Rooney has enjoyed only eleven seasons in which his team won more games than it lost. The Steelers have not earned a single N.F.L. championship. No other pro football team that has been around so long has produced so little. But for Rooney, now 73, success seems finally to have arrived. The Steelers are the new champions of the American Conference, and they are heading into Sunday's Super Bowl with an excellent chance to beat the Minnesota Vikings...