From: Gary Hart <geehart@frontiernet.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:24:02 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:40:20 -0400
Subject: UpDate: Re: Open Letter to Elizabeth and Gary - Hart


 >Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:19:44 -0400 (EDT)
 >From: Jim Mortellaro <Jsmortell@aol.com>
 >Subject: Re: Open Letter to Elizabeth and Gary
 >To: updates@sympatico.ca


 >The word I selected was "mitigate." The context was that guilt
 >is more than mitigated as a result of those files being
 >presented sanitized. The verb intransitive is defined by my
 >"just friend" Merriam as follows:

 >"to cause to become less harsh or hostile : MOLLIFY
 ><aggressiveness may be mitigated"

 >I meant exactly that. In addition, was Carpenter practicing as a
 >licensed social worker during these times he was researching
 >cases? That is a question to which I do not know the answer. Is
 >this too fine a point? Not from the legal perspective. The moral
 >one, is another matter to which I personally refuse to engage.
 >Like Pontius, I will not judge him. I am not God.


Jim,

The law I have read prevents a licensed clinical social worker
from declaring (silently or otherwise) that they suddenly are
not licensed clinical social workers. It this were allowed, then
all kinds of fraud could be developed from this point and in the
past it has because the law is written to prevent it.

I'm sure that your doctor might wish he were not your doctor or
a doctor at all if he makes a mistake on you but his responsi-
bility as a doctor travels with him at all times everywhere.

Gary