Poddar's Case

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Population: Professionals who are impacted by this case would mainly be psychiatrists and anyone in the health care field. This would mainly go to professionals who work with patients one-on-one. It is their duty to protect another victim if they are at risk. Even though there is work confidentiality, this case allows to tell others if they are at risk from another person. If they do not tell the victim that they are threatened by their patient, they can be sued for knowing and not taking the duty to protect in full action.

The most fascinating thing about this case to me was that even though Poddar wasn’t in the care of the doctor at the time he murdered Tatiana, the hospital still got the blame for it. I did not realize how important the

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