Healthcare/Hospital Law
Jan. 25, 2001
Ruling in Drug Case Troubles Therapists
LOS ANGELES - An appellate court decision Tuesday that allows a trial court to review the patient files of a psychotherapist under investigation for allegedly over-prescribing drugs has many in the psychiatric community worried.
"It may cause people not to seek psychotherapy out of fear that what they disclose confidentially will be reviewed by a judge," Daniel H. Willick, an a...
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