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Mental Health Information

Neoma

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3. Also, in the article...

Reply to AnotherMcIntosh (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 24, 2013, 11:37 PM

Mar 2013

The New York State Nurses Association wrote a memo March 13 to Cuomo arguing that the statute violates medical privacy laws and stigmatizes mental illness by linking it to gun violence, creating barriers for those who need treatment.

This is very true.

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Mental-health officials clash on N.Y. gun law reporting [View all] Neoma Mar 2013 OP

The mental health professionals should certainly report any police officer patients that they treat. AnotherMcIntosh Mar 2013 #1

I think it'd be on too much of a regular basis on false alarms and then a lack of confidentiality. Neoma Mar 2013 #2

Also, in the article... Neoma Mar 2013 #3

It sounded like a good idea at the time...keep guns away from dangerous people. HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #4