[Spktyr]

HIPPA. Health care workers can no longer report specific persons who wish to harm themselves or others to the police.

[Paladin2]

The BATFE Form needs to include a question as to being under the care of a Zzsychiatrist of Zzychologist. That would exclude most ‘rats.

[Jaidyn]

HIPPA. Health care workers can no longer report specific persons who wish to harm themselves or others to the police. I was in the field and retired in 2008. We had a Duty to Warn, if we thought a client was harmful to himself or others. I can't imagine the state changing this rule, since it began because a client murdered his ex girlfriend in California in 1976. I believe the case was State versus Tarasoff. A month or so before I retired, a client said he 'might as well be dead'. He said that often, but even so, I watched him closely. He bought a can of Pepsi from a machine, and I saw him pour it out, and I ran towards him. In an instant, he ripped the can in half, and acted like he was going to cut himself. I talked him out of the can, an then, called 911.

[P-Marlowe]

HIPPA. Health care workers can no longer report specific persons who wish to harm themselves or others to the police

That's not true. In many cases they are required to report, especially if there is a threat to a minor child.

[Domangart]

Who told you that?