First of all what I am about to type about has nothing to do with MY T. It is something I encountered yesterday and thought it was really strange.

I work on a psych unit and we will be discharging a patient (I'll call her Beth). Yesterday Beth called a friend (Kim)and arranged for transportation. Everything seemed fine. A couple of hours later Kim's therapist called my work. Kim was in an appointment with her T. Kim has been pretty much Beth's only support system for months and she has watched as her depression has gotten progressively worse with lots of crying and being very dependency on Kim Kim has felt overwhelmed lately and thought Beth probably hadn't been hospitalized long enough. Kim didn't want to be apart of discharge if the doctors didn't feel Beth was ready for discharge. She thought Beth might be pushing for discharge but wasn't ready. Of course because of hippa I couldn't give any information until I got a release to talk to Kim (I had consent to acknowledge to anybody she was there). I told the T that I would see about getting a release I would call Kim back.

According to the T this relationship is something she has been working with Kim on and Kim was uncomfortable with the situation. So here is my question, is it appropriate for T to have been calling me?? I can't imagine my T doing it.

I knew Kim was there in the room with her and I gave no information about Beth...I did get a release to talk to Kim a few minutes after the conversation.