Britney's car 'abandoned in street'

Troubled Britney Spears' car was impounded after police found it abandoned in the street.
Police said Spears was driving on Monday night when she had a flat tyre on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Police spokesman Karen Smith said Spears left the car unattended and as it was blocking traffic it was towed away.
Police said it was unlikely the 26-year-old pop star will be given a parking ticket because the car was disabled when it was left in the street.
"She probably will have to pay to get her car out of the impound," Ms Smith said.
It emerged later that there was a scuffle between a photographer and a security guard as Spears entered an LA hotel two hours after her car was towed away.
The pop star was not to blame for the fight at the Four Seasons Hotel, the police spokeswoman said.
"She was leaving the hotel when one of the paparazzi and a security guard at the hotel had a scuffle," Ms Smith said.
Spears was admitted to hospital last week after a stand-off at her home that was triggered by a custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline over the couple's two young sons. A court commissioner took custody of her children from Spears the next day.
The singer has had a series of problems involving her car in recent months. In October, she ran over a photographer's foot.

John Turley-Ewart: Did Dr. Phil violate patient confidentiality in the Britney Spears' case?

Following my post criticizing the distasteful opportunism displayed by Dr. Phil — who used a visit to Britney Spears in hospital to promote his own TV show — today's news that Britney's family say Dr. "Tough Love" crossed the line leads me to wonder if Dr. Phil is guilty of more than opportunism. Did he also breach patient confidentiality that medical professionals are expected to uphold?
A spokesman for Britney's mother is quoted today saying "The [Spears] family basically extended an invitation of trust for him to come in as a resource to support them, not to go out and make public statements. Any statement publicly that he made, because he was brought in under this cloak of trust, (is) just inappropriate."
Certainly "inappropriate" is a useful word to describe Dr. Phil's actions. The question that must now be asked of Dr. Phil is whether he is guilty of professional misconduct in this sad affair that has all the appearance of a daytime talk show host putting his own ambitions ahead of the well-being of a troubled 26-year-old woman and her family who turned to him for help.