CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Privileges
......Physician-Patient Privilege
.........Confidential Communication
 5 Cards On This Topic:
  • Confidential communication between physician and patient privileged.
  • D failed to demonstrate that statements she made to a nurse were covered by the physician-patient privilege—no threshold showing that the nurse was a “physician” within the meaning of EC 990.
  • Photos of patients taken by treating physician are confidential communications protected by physician-patient privilege.
  • Patient has constitutional right to privacy of medical records; showing required to overcome.
  • Where revealing names of doctor's patients also reveals nature of condition, names are privileged.


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