Court Opinion

ID: 9657246
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 20:18:09.089284+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:10:13.286714
License: Public Domain

MURDOCK, Justice
(concurring specially).
I concur with the main opinion. In so doing, I do not read the main opinion as addressing whether the release by a physician to an employer of the type information at issue here (an allegedly improper request to backdate medical records) constitutes the release of “intimate details of the patient’s health” as contemplated in Crippen v. Charter Southland Hospital, Inc., 534 So.2d 286, 288 (Ala.1988), or otherwise falls within the duty of confidentiality with which that case is concerned. By the same token, I do not read the main opinion as addressing whether § 25-5-77, AIa.Code 1975, has any field of operation in regard to this type of information.