Opinion ID: 2016221
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Heading: physician testimony regarding b.w.'s comments during medical examination

Text: Dr. Votta, B.W.'s treating physician, testified that during a medical interview B.W. told him that her mother's boyfriend had tried to put his thing where she goes to the bathroom. Appellant asserts that Dr. Votta's testimony about B.W.'s comments about the source of her condition in a medical interview should have been excluded under the hearsay rule. Contrary to appellant's contentions, the record is clear that the comments were offered by B.W. in the context of a medical examination and diagnosis, and hence were admissible under § 27-803(3). That provision, as an exception to the hearsay rule exclusions, permits admission of statements by a declarant patient for the purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment, and description of medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof, as is reasonably pertinent to diagnosis. We find that Dr. Votta's testimony was admissible under the § 27-803(3) exception to the hearsay rule. The assignment is without merit.