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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
What Happened With the Gun Guy
A quickie, I don't want to divert attention from Roy's Moral Conundrums below. I'm posting the real life what happened on the Johnny Get Your Gun Post in Red below. Click here.
I can see why the patient fired the therapist. By violating patient/Dr priviledge, all this did was let the patient know that his therapist can't be trusted. If trust is an issue with the patient, then this could have done more damage long term or short term. Seems that the therapist lost the mindset of treating the patient first. Who was the therapist really trying to save? The patient or himself?
4 comments:
huh? where? So confused (so what else is new?)
Hi Rach, You were just faster than I am. It's there.
I can see why the patient fired the therapist. By violating patient/Dr priviledge, all this did was let the patient know that his therapist can't be trusted. If trust is an issue with the patient, then this could have done more damage long term or short term. Seems that the therapist lost the mindset of treating the patient first. Who was the therapist really trying to save? The patient or himself?
Parked, I agree wholeheartedly.
And I have to wonder whether part of the therapist's motivation was the fear of being sued. It's such a sad state of affairs this field is in.
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