TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - The Texas Supreme Court speaks: mental health professionals have no duty to warn or protect third parties
JO  - Texas medicine
A1  - Scarano, Victor R.
A1  - Baily, Cyndi M.
A1  - Banfield, James R.
SP  - 61
EP  - 64
VL  - 98
IS  - 11
N2  - On June, 24, 1999, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a physician does not have a duty to warn a third party when a patient makes specific threats of harm toward a readily identifiable person. The 77th Texas legislative session that ended in the spring of 2001 did not address the Tarasoff duty to warn or protect a third party. Thus, the current holding in Texas allows that there is no Tarasoff duty to warn or protect a third party. This paper reviews that decision and identifies those occasions when a physician shall warn or may warn and to whom.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0040-4470
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -