Warning: This malpractice case deals with suicide. It is very difficult to read and may not be appropriate for everyone. This is a heartbreaking case of a 32-year-old woman who suffered from depression. She was the married mother of 2 children and worked as a school teacher.
This is entirely the husbands fault that he did not secure the firearm safely in the home and it is sickening he has dispersed even the suggestion of guilt and responsibility onto the clinicians that tried to help her.
It is extraordinary that no practitioner performed an evaluation of suicide risk and updated it on every meeting. Failure to remove access to the gun or make strenuous efforts for its removal is a major problem complicated further if this occurred in a state w a red flag law.
How does the onus fall on the naturopathic doctor when she saw a litany of mental health professionals prior to the ND who equally failed their standards of care? For all we know, she went to the ND for a completely unrelated reason to her depression.
This is entirely the husbands fault that he did not secure the firearm safely in the home and it is sickening he has dispersed even the suggestion of guilt and responsibility onto the clinicians that tried to help her.
It is extraordinary that no practitioner performed an evaluation of suicide risk and updated it on every meeting. Failure to remove access to the gun or make strenuous efforts for its removal is a major problem complicated further if this occurred in a state w a red flag law.
How does the onus fall on the naturopathic doctor when she saw a litany of mental health professionals prior to the ND who equally failed their standards of care? For all we know, she went to the ND for a completely unrelated reason to her depression.