Do HIPAAs rules against sharing patient medical information have any exemptions for dangerous psychiatric disorders? If not, the Democrats need to focus on fixing what's broken there - not try to take everyone's guns away.
C-dub wrote:This is going to bite them hard. Did they think they had no responsibility to the rest of the community or society in general? I thought if a psychiatrist thought a client was going to commit a crime the "doctor-patient" confidentiality thing flew out the window. That might be, obviously, true since the doc went to the team with her opinion.philip964 wrote:http://abcnews.go.com/US/james-holmes-p ... Bp8tfWBpyc
University has a threat assessment team in place to stop Virginia Tech type killings. His psychiatrist was a member of that team. She notified the team about James Holmes, but when he dropped out of school. He was no longer their problem and no action was taken.