DOCTORS' PRIVILEGES
♦ ■■ ' QUESTION CROPS UP IN SUPREME COURT. <*I TEItGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, This Day. . The question whether a.. doctor is bound to speak in Court cropped up in the Supreme Court during the hearing of a divorce petition. Counsel for petitioner had subpoenaed Dr. Riley as to the respondent's condition when examined in hospital. When asked the result of the examination, witness said: "I am willing if the patient consents, but do not think I should divulge what passed without permission." Mr. Justice Sim said there was a distinction between communications between a doctor and a patient,, and the facts ascertained on examination. The privilege extended to anything the patient . communicated, but there was no privilege regarding the facts observed by the doctor on examination.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 132, 5 June 1923, Page 8
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125DOCTORS' PRIVILEGES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 132, 5 June 1923, Page 8
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