Memorandum TO: Professor Jan M. Levine FROM: Adam Weiss LRW § 4 DATE: November 3, 2016 RE: Carpenter, Spencer; wrongful death by breach of duty to warn about dangerous outpatient Statement of Facts Our clients, Rita Mae Carpenter and Thomas F. Spencer, are seeking to bring a wrongful death cause of action against Dr. Richard Hapman (Hapman), an Atlanta psychiatrist, for his failure to warn their decedents, Carpenter’s brother and sister-in-law and Spencer’s wife, about the threat presented by his foreseeably dangerous outpatient Bradley Mitchell (Mitchell). Mitchell began treatment with Hapman in September 2010 (their conversations then became privileged). Mitchell was obsessed with the five members of the Beta-Beta-Beta (Tri-Beta), …show more content…
Hapman, their conversations and any records generated by Hapman became privileged, meaning that he could be liable if he disclosed. The privilege statutes state that “There are certain admissions and communications excluded from evidence on grounds of public policy, including . . . Communications between psychiatrist and patient.” Ga. Code Ann. § 24-5-501(a)(5). This replaced an older one with the only change being the addition of the “from evidence” language. Ga. Code Ann., § 24-9-21 (replaced in 2011). This privilege applies even after the patient’s death. Cooksey v. Landry, 761 S.E.2d 61, 65 (Ga. 2014). There are exceptions to this privilege for extreme cases such as child abuse, where a psychiatrist must report the abuse per Ga. Code Ann. § 19-7-5, during court mandated examinations where a psychiatrist must give testimony on a patient’s ability to stand trial, or in involuntary commitment proceedings determining the need to commit the patient. Leggett v. State, 259 S.E.2d 476, 478 (Ga. 1979); Ga. Code Ann. § …show more content…
The commitment statute in Georgia states “Any physician within this state may execute a certificate stating that he has personally examined a person within the preceding 48 hours and found that, based upon observations set forth in the certificate, the person appears to be a mentally ill person requiring involuntary treatment.” Ga. Code Ann. § 37-3-41(a) (Emphasis added). Telephone conversations, such as the one between Hapman and Mitchell, cannot be used as a personal evaluation for commitment purposes. Kendrick v. Metro. Psychiatric Ctr., Inc., 282 S.E.2d 361,362,364 (Ga. Ct. App.
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I presented Esteban’s case during case consultation because I noticed that I had countertransference when doing his intake. My expectation when presenting this case was to receive feedback that would help me to provide effective treatment to Esteban without my countertransference affecting his treatment. This section of the paper will talk about the feedback I received about my countertransference and how to support Esteban.
James, I fully agree that it will be ill- advised to follow the HMH board members advocating for Mr. Longs's medical history release. The confidientiality of a patient records is to be strongly valued and release of such records are to be strictly construed in accordance with their terms. In the case called Hageman v. Southwest General Health Center the plantiff Kenneth Hageman, was recieving psychiatric treatment and during his course of treatment his wife sued him for divorce. Well, too make a long story short, Mr. Hageman gave authorization to his wife attorney for release of his medical records due to a custody battle. Therafter, his wife attorney released his records to the prosecuting attorney in his wife assult case against Mr. Hageman.
The court held the psychologist responsible for the murder of his girlfriend and for not informing of the intent to harm. I believe Justice Tobriner said it best, “the protective privilege ends where the public peril begins.”
In the event of releasing any patient information it is important to make sure that all of your T’s are crossed and your I’s are dotted before the transaction is complete. However, because specialized patient records, such as Mental health or substance abuse cases, contain not only strictly medical information, but also therapeutic mental and emotional information, the release of this type of information could cause some damage to the patient (McWay, 2010, p. 227). This is why the release of information concerning this type of patient records is different from that of a patient record without delicate information in it.
Dr. Ronald M. Boggio, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, was the one that Allen (the client) was referred to by the Virginia Department of Corrections (as required by Code 37.1-70.4 (C)), for an evaluation report in which he conducted and completed. Dr. Boggio, was also an expert witness testifying for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Under Multiple Relationships which both covered by APA code of ethics sub-category 3.05 and Specialty Guidelines code 4.02; that he should have refrain from entering into multiple relationship if it could reasonably be expected to impair his objectivity, in performing his duty as a psychologist. Dr. Boggio is involved in a personal or other relationship with an adverse party; at the same time is in a professional relationship with his client. Furthermore, he should be careful to observe his professional relationship with his patient and how it will affect the case as well as his professional relationship with his patient that he will testify against.
To do that, the information from a treatment provider can be most helpful. So if the information from a provider doesn’t make its way to the court by way of direct testimony, in defense to the confidentiality issues, it may do so through a guardian or evaluators interview with the provider. But in most cases, one way or another information from a counselor and his or her records will find its way to the judge who needs it” (Psychotherapy, 2008).
There are several ethical dilemmas that the mental health professionals that are working as a team will face including “ensuring that the client has given informed consent, maintaining client confidentiality, and involving professionals, paraprofessionals, and family in appropriate coordinated processes that benefit the client” (Paproski & Haverkamp, 2000, p.96).
The situation is the decision to breach the confidentiality between a client and his patient. The therapist has to decide if the client will pose a threat to himself or any other 3rd party, or society as a whole. If the therapist feels in any way that the client could be a threat, he has the right to notify the person or the correct officials to insure that no harm comes to anyone involved.
Using Analytical Procedures as Substantive Tests By Frank A. Buckless and D. Scott Showalter, NC State University
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