Sentence examples for dangerous patients from inspiring English sources

Next, at 17 citations, was Tarasoff v. University of California in 1976, which ruled that mental health professionals sometimes have a duty to warn people about dangerous patients.

The measure would allow hospitals to detain mentally ill and dangerous patients for up to 24 hours.

Unlike psychiatrists, who in some jurisdictions have an affirmative obligation to disclose the confidences of dangerous patients, lawyers have no special skills to assist them in determining whether a client's potential actions pose an actual threat.

As physicians who have worked in women's jails and prisons, we can attest to the fact that even the least dangerous patients are subjected to painful restrictions when taken to an outside hospital.

One of my darkest fears, for example, is being murdered, raped or kidnapped by one of the 211 (and still counting) dangerous patients which my nearby mental health unit, the John Howard Centre in Homerton, has allowed to escape since 2001.

With a narrative of defaulting, providers described excluded and dangerous patients, dangerous to the population and their own quiet inclusion in the health care contract.

Even when its major stakeholder is out of office, Mediaset's large audiences give it political heft.Sky remains a dangerous, patient challenger.

Law enforcement would then be authorized to confiscate any firearm owned by a dangerous patient; therapists would not be sanctioned for a failure to report such patients if they acted "in good faith".

Conversely, a defendant's writings in his anger management workbook threatening to kill the President upon the defendant's release from the penitentiary were ruled to have fallen within the dangerous patient exception to psychotherapist-patient privilege.

And isolation barriers can be dangerous for patients.

"The system had become far more dangerous for patients than I had ever realized," she says.