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Letter: Slipping through the cracks

For the Monitor

Monday, February 18, 2013

With the 1996 HIPAA laws requiring health-care information be kept confidential and the Patient Self-Determination Act that protects the right to accept or refuse medical treatments, many people with past histories of mental illness that date quite far back somehow slip right through those cracks of awareness, and many own or have access to firearms.

How will we ever be able to stop or control more senseless acts of violence? Somehow we must come together and at least try to put an end to the taking of life. We only have one, and each life is so valuable.

DENISE CAILLER

Concord

Walter wrote:
19/02/2013

Denise...well said, and spot-on. Thanks.
Hunter_Dan wrote:
19/02/2013

Excellent letter Denise! You got right to the crux of the problem in only four sentences!
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