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The physician-patient privilege: friend or foe? 1995

J L Ropiequet

Arnstein & Lehr, Chicago, IL.

The physician-patient privilege that has been enacted in most states has usually been seen as having the benign, even salutary, effect of protecting confidences that patients have entrusted to their physicians in the course of obtaining medical care and treatment. However, case decisions in one state have turned the privilege into a sword that plaintiffs can use to interfere with physicians' and hospitals' defense of cases against them by denying their counsel access to key defense witnesses. This development could occur in many other states that have taken a similar general approach in analyzing the privilege.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007087	Illinois	State bounded on the north by Wisconsin, on the east by Lake Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky, on the west by Missouri and Iowa, and on the south by Kentucky.
D008318	Malpractice	Failure of a professional person, a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)	Professional Negligence,Negligence,Negligence, Professional,Professional Negligences
D010817	Physician-Patient Relations	The interactions between physician and patient.	Doctor-Patient Relations,Doctor Patient Relations,Physician Patient Relations,Physician Patient Relationship,Doctor Patient Relation,Doctor-Patient Relation,Physician Patient Relation,Physician Patient Relationships,Physician-Patient Relation,Relation, Doctor Patient,Relation, Doctor-Patient,Relation, Physician Patient,Relation, Physician-Patient,Relations, Doctor Patient,Relations, Doctor-Patient,Relations, Physician Patient,Relations, Physician-Patient,Relationship, Physician Patient,Relationships, Physician Patient
D003219	Confidentiality	The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure.	Patient Data Privacy,Privacy of Patient Data,Privileged Communication,Confidential Information,Secrecy,Communication, Privileged,Communications, Privileged,Data Privacy, Patient,Information, Confidential,Privacy, Patient Data,Privileged Communications
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D015285	Hospital-Patient Relations	Interactions between hospital staff or administrators and patients. Includes guest relations programs designed to improve the image of the hospital and attract patients.	Guest Relations,Guest Relation,Hospital Patient Relations,Hospital-Patient Relation,Relations, Guest,Relations, Hospital-Patient

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