RT Journal
A1 Trostler IS
T1 "Rule as to privileged communications applied to roentgenologist"
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD January 25
VO 72
IS 4
SP 298
OP 298
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610040064028
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610040064028
AB To the Editor: 
    —In The Journal, Dec. 10, 1918, p. 2019, there is an abstract of a recent decision of the Idaho Supreme Court, wherein the law of privileged communications is applied to a roentgenologist, in a suit to recover damages for personal injury. This decision must have a far-reaching influence and should be brought to the notice of the entire medical profession. It points out that roentgenology should be applied only by licensed physicians, because the laws regarding privileged communications (where such laws exist) apply only to communications made to or information elicited by attorneys, clergymen or physicians. If the roentgen examinations, in the case cited, had been made by a layman, the supreme court would have reversed the decision of the trial court. In fact, the decision of the trial court would have been entirely different, in this particular phase of the case, if the roentgen examinations had