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In this podcast, we continue a series that began with a look at an emerging bevy of state laws proposing to create a sort of “mental health safe harbor” for physicians to get mental health care. We saw that while termed a “safe harbor,” it was anything but.
In this podcast, we explore the broader concept of confidentiality in mental health which serves as a backdrop to understanding the major intrusion on privacy and safety that Delaware’s law causes. And we look at why physicians in particular are in great danger should they be “reported” by a state-mandated confidentiality-breaching therapist.
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