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...Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center. The Central Square-based health facility, operated by the Cambridge Health Alliance, will close that day. In public meetings, the CHA has cited ongoing budget problems and the inefficiency of operating the center as reasons for shutting the center’s doors. While patients and other residents have said they are upset that the center will be closing, some said that it will not negatively affect their health care. “I have the best of care here,” Grace A. Carson said Friday afternoon after an appointment at the health...
...sterilizes only with Essure, says, "The most important job we have is to make sure people are absolutely certain." He discussed the issue for a year with Chastity Taylor, who is only 29 and has one daughter, before implanting the coils in her in September. The doctor, his patient and her husband are convinced it was the right choice; otherwise, Taylor says, "I would have stayed on the IUD forever...
...rule creates a psychotherapist-patient privilege for the detainees, and greatly restricts the government's access to mental health records. This will doubtlessly result in considerable litigation, where allegations of torture and abuse are raised at trial...
...interest in protecting the privilege outweighs the public's interest in having all the evidence for a fair trial. Some are obviously necessary (e.g. lawyer-client), some are more historical than practical (e.g. priest-penitent), and some are quite questionable (e.g. spousal privilege). The theory underlying the psychotherapist-patient privilege is that it is more important for the patient to have unfettered access to mental health care than it is for the government to have access to the mental health records. In Jaffee v. Redmond, the Supreme Court found that was true for the people...
...Comm. R. Evid. 501 is taken from the military rules, but it did not include 501(d), which specifically rejected the physician-patient privilege. The government's ability to obtain access to detainee medical records has become a big issue. Under the existing law, there is no basis for denying the government such access. Amending this rule to conform to military practice would help clarify this issue...