How do you approach disposition planning when a patient makes homicidal threats on presentation to the emergency department but later recants?

Tarasoff rules.

Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California

The ER department remains in the purview of all medicine in the USA, in my opinion.

“How do you approach” is the same regardless of the setting. The thought of the clinician remains superordinate. Is this really a question?

Recant.....

We are psychiatrists, and we have our area of expertise... the legal system has theirs... the legal system, NOT the medical system, has created Tarasoff or more specifically THE DUTY TO WARN. I have taught residents, medical students, and nurse practitioners for many years, and I present a very simp...