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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Law & Order "A Perfect Family" 4/3/2025 (was: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-06 (Sunday))
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 17:46:19 -0000 (UTC)
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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>Law & Order - "A Perfect Family" - A woman with mental health issues 
>kills her daughter so the police arrest the husband for not letting her 
>take medications.  Although as the defense points out, he didn't 
>actually prevent her from taking the meds, he just said he didn't want 
>her too.  Anyway the man gets prosecuted because the writers are running 
>out of ideas.  I kept thinking the woman was seeing a therapist.  If the 
>therapist thought she was a danger to herself or others, then why didn't 
>the therapist have her committed, or the police arrest the therapist for 
>not doing something.  And if the trained licensed therapist thought she 
>was safe to be on the streets without meds, then how would the husband 
>know different?

I acknowledge that you commented upon utterly stupid and offensive crap
in that script that I had not commented upon. You're absolutely right,
that danger to herself or others requires a doctor to report the
patient. There is no confidentiality. I don't recall what the doctor
told the police that the patient said to her in support of the diagnosis
of post partum psychosis, if she indicated that she would inflict harm.