Law & Order "A Perfect Family" 4/3/2025 (was: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-06 (Sunday))

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.