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http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/04/22/5353796-sun.html

During the six weeks he spent looking for his daughter Nadia, he heard countless times that the 18-year-old Carleton University student was an adult.

He heard that whatever desperate, depressed and suicidal feelings she told a counsellor, they were private.

But today, two days after his daughter's body was discovered along the Rideau River, the grieving father rages at a system that kept his daughter's pain a secret to him.


An 18-year-old university student who went missing over a month ago, turned up a couple days ago when her body was discovered in the Rideau River.

It has surfaced now that she was likely depressed and the medication she was taking at the time has been found to increase suicidal thoughts in other patients in the past.

The controversy around this story is that the girl's father had no idea she was depressed because of the doctor-patient priviledge. In a different situation, one might be able to argue that the parents should have been able to detect the depression, but in this case, his daughter was going to school in Ottawa… away from the family's Brampton (GTA) home.

I understand that the doctor-patient priviledge is an important concept to retain, but I can't help but side with the father here that the counsellors/doctors should have made an exception in this case given the limited contact between the girl and her family.

Thoughts?