Does the privilege of information provided by a hospital to a doctor in a patient's mental health evaluation need to be interpreted in the context of medical malpractice cases?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Toranto v. Jaffurs, 297 F.Supp.3d 1073 (S.D. Cal. 2018):
the privilege, when it made the communication, knew the information was false or otherwise lacked a good faith intent to assist in the medical practitioner's evaluation." Hassan v. Mercy American River Hosp., 31 Cal.4th 709, 724, 3 Cal.Rptr.3d 623, 74 P.3d 726 (2003).
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