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To: Yet_Again
So, when you ask one of your, what YOU deem as “crazy” patients if they have a gun and they say yes, who do you report them to?

Are you a psychiatrist too?

47 posted on 03/12/2011 12:12:11 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
So, when you ask one of your, what YOU deem as “crazy” patients if they have a gun and they say yes, who do you report them to? Are you a psychiatrist too?

Every physician has training in psychiatry, and most psychiatric diagnoses are not made by trained psychiatrists. So yes, in a sense I am. As far as who I report them to, unless they are homicidal, nobody. A suicidal patient is institutionalized for his own protection. A homicidal patient is reported to the authorities. Otherwise, the information is documented for medicolegal purposes and remains in the chart.
48 posted on 03/12/2011 12:16:23 PM PST by Yet_Again
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