PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - K. Capen
TI  - Firearms law raises issue of MDs' duty to predict and report potentially violent patients
DP  - 1995 Apr 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1300--1302
VI  - 152
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/8/1300.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/152/8/1300.full
SO  - CMAJ1995 Apr 15; 152
AB  - The possibility that an amendment to new firearms legislation would require physicians to report potentially violent patients raises the controversial issues of physicians' legal duty to warn and the ability of physicians and other health care professionals to predict violent behaviour. For these reasons, it will be necessary to follow carefully any proposed amendments to the legislation.