Court Opinion

ID: 9654650
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 18:46:20.536891+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:12.231231
License: Public Domain

HOGAN, Presiding Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the scholarly principal opinion, but would have it made clear that a mere “court order” affords no shield whatever to the physician being interviewed from a later action to recover damages on account of breach of any residual or newly-created physician-patient privilege. The physician who grants the interview is still “on his own,” so to speak, in determining whether the scope of the questions asked by the interviewer is so extensive as to require him to expose himself to liability. Therefore, I would emphasize that a decision to grant an interview is not without risk, and must be strictly voluntary.