RT Journal
T1 PRivileged communications between physician and patient
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD June 27
VO 170
IS 9
SP 1134
OP 1134
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03010090124040
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010090124040
AB A professor of law has written this book as the outgrowth of 30 years of experience in trial and appellate courts. He believes that members of the bench and bar have too often misunderstood the purpose of testimonial privilege. If his opinion is correct, and there is little reason to doubt it after reading the text, it must also be true that physicians do not fully understand or appreciate the nature, purpose, and extent of testimonial privilege. This book, the only one dealing exclusively with testimonial privilege, is bound to fill a long-recognized void. It contains discussions of the common-law doctrine of testimonial privilege applicable to particular confidential relationships, the physician-patient privilege statutes, the policy of the privilege, and the nature of the privilege. Two interesting and helpful chapters contain discussions of the relationship of physician and patient and the medical persons protected by the privilege. An appendix quotes statutes