Mental health physicians, such as counselors and psychologists, face a wide variety of ethical and moral dilemmas. One dilemma that has the possibility of occurring is a counselor talking about one of their patients outside of their office. While it is common for physicians to talk about their patients in generalities to other people, it becomes an ethical dilemma if the counselor or psychologists talks about their patient and accidentally uses their name. The mental health physician is then faced with the decision of whether or not to tell their patient about this incident. On the one hand the physician feels guilty about it and feels their patient could forgive them, but on the other hand they fear the patient might get upset and report them
