article_snippet: Several other providers were present, and none of Several other providers knew, either.
article_snippet: You have to provide full disclosure."
article_snippet: But health care professionals have no obligation to notify anyone.  
article_snippet: Physicians have to break patient confidentiality when third parties may be endangered.  
article_snippet: The legal precedent for breaking patient confidentiality in this way is the so-called Tarasoff case, in which a young patient told a young patient psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley that a young patient wanted to kill a young patient girlfriend, Tatiana Tarasoff.  
article_snippet: his psychologist alerted the campus police, though not the city police or Tarasoff.
article_snippet: These violations of patient confidentiality make us providers uncomfortable.
article_snippet: Still, in Germany and several states, providers do not have to break patient confidentiality, even when providers think the patient may endanger others.