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...What if Jesus Fornes had confessed his crime to a psychiatrist? According to Dr. Richard Harding, president of the American Psychiatric Association and staff member at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, the psychiatrist?s loyalty lies solely with his client. If a patient commits murder and confesses the crime to his doctor, and that doctor is subpoenaed and asked point-blank whether his client committed the murder, the psychiatrist is supposed to do almost anything to avoid implicating his patient. Why? First to maintain that patient?s trust. Second, because people tell their psychiatrists they plan...
...precedent clearly stating that we do have the responsibility to protect. And so if we know of a situation that is going to happen or may potentially happen that could endanger the person we?re talking to, or others, we have a duty to warn - even if it breaks patient-doctor confidentiality. That can mean going to the police, but it doesn?t have to. It can also mean calling the person who may be injured and warning them...
...Yeah, we?re still looking at two standout points of disagreement: The first is liability caps, how much a patient can sue for. The second is the question of venue for the lawsuits themselves. While the Norwood-Dingell-Gansky bill allows suits to be filed in state and federal courts, the Fletcher version allows only a tiny window into state courts...
Soler is a little-known lobbyist who has put together a brilliant coalition in Congress in favor of the research. Working with Daniel Perry, executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research, Soler organized 38 national patient groups into his coalition. Soler and Perry routinely corner politicians with polls showing that majorities of Catholics and other churchgoers favor embryonic stem-cell research. They have mobilized patients and their families to press their members of Congress, and some believe that they have enough votes to override a veto on a potential research bill...
...this the great opening up of the Italian market? Not yet. Even if control of Mediobanca shifts, its big shareholders have an incentive to keep things in the family. In a market where pension funds have until recently been small players, Generali has been an important source of "patient capital," observes Bolgiani of Eptafund. Tacconis agrees: "[Generali] is too important for such owners to be ready to give their shares to a foreign player, or to somebody who wants Mediobanca at any price." But once the butterfly flaps, you never know for sure what kind of storm...