METALFumasu
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- Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:24:30 +0000
Knee-jerk reactions all around!
Restrictions on high-capacity magazines, yada yada yada... This is the part that bugs the heck out of me:
So I guess people in New York with diagnosed mental illnesses/those who might be mentally ill don't deserve the privacy of patient-doctor confidentiality that normal people do. Can't wait to see if this will get dragged before the courts.
I've said this before on other sites, and I'll say it here right now: Knee-jerk reaction legislation is never a good idea.
Next up in the reactionary responses parade: Obama's possible gun control plans. Who knows how bad those could be.
As the Zen Master says, "We'll see."
Restrictions on high-capacity magazines, yada yada yada... This is the part that bugs the heck out of me:
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"The one change that arguably will have the greatest impact is the amendment to Kendra's Law, which will permit closer monitoring of the mentally ill," he said.
That 1999 law grants New York judges the authority to require residents to undergo psychiatric treatment if they meet certain criteria.
The new measures extend Kendra's Law through 2017, expand outpatient treatment from six months to a year and require reviews before such treatment is allowed to expire.
New York's mental health professionals will also be governed by a new set of rules that require them to report their patients to the state should those patients exhibit behavior suggesting they could be harmful to themselves or others.
"We're opening up an unprecedented window into what goes on in the therapy room," said Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, director of the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
"It would effect a major change in the usual presumptions of confidentiality."
"The one change that arguably will have the greatest impact is the amendment to Kendra's Law, which will permit closer monitoring of the mentally ill," he said.
That 1999 law grants New York judges the authority to require residents to undergo psychiatric treatment if they meet certain criteria.
The new measures extend Kendra's Law through 2017, expand outpatient treatment from six months to a year and require reviews before such treatment is allowed to expire.
New York's mental health professionals will also be governed by a new set of rules that require them to report their patients to the state should those patients exhibit behavior suggesting they could be harmful to themselves or others.
"We're opening up an unprecedented window into what goes on in the therapy room," said Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, director of the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
"It would effect a major change in the usual presumptions of confidentiality."
So I guess people in New York with diagnosed mental illnesses/those who might be mentally ill don't deserve the privacy of patient-doctor confidentiality that normal people do. Can't wait to see if this will get dragged before the courts.
I've said this before on other sites, and I'll say it here right now: Knee-jerk reaction legislation is never a good idea.
Next up in the reactionary responses parade: Obama's possible gun control plans. Who knows how bad those could be.
As the Zen Master says, "We'll see."
