DOCTOR FINED.
QUESTION OF MEDICAL
PRIVILEGE.
LONDON TEST CASE.
(BT CiBLS—PRESS ASSOCUSIO*—CCfIBMt**.) (AUSTRALIAN AND K.S. CAMS AMOCJATtOa.)
LONDON March 2. The query "Must ft doctor tell!" was answered when D?. Kingsbury was fined £35 at Mansion Souse, for refuting ta disclose tho name of « drug addict whom ho was treating.
The Lord Mayor, Sir William Pryke, In entering the conviction, said It would probably be & test ease.
Dr. Kingsbury, who gave notka of appeal, said that it was th# sawed duty of a medico not to disclose the confidence of l}is patient. "I never shall," he said, "and ertjy doctor in London i» behSad ««. My patient is gradually recovering fw» the drug habit." Tho prosecution pointed out that Uri Kingsbury was obtaining 2d gr&las of morphine weekly, and ihat thare was a danger of doctors becoming * flhan,nel whereby drugs may be supplied.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18631, 4 March 1926, Page 9
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