1. You work for a psychiatric hospital, a patient known to be unstable and unpredictable requests his health record for

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1.
You work for a psychiatric hospital, a patient known to be
unstable and unpredictable requests his health record for personal
use. The record states that the notes and diagnoses written by the
physician may endanger the patient due to their sensitive
nature.
Can these records be released to the
patient?
2.
A man arrives at your medical facility and requests the records
of his recently deceased wife. He claims to be her husband and he
is requesting her records to fulfill an application for disability
to dispute charges incurred prior to her death.
Can you release the records to this man?
If not, what steps need to be taken in order to release these
records?