A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him... United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court - Page 250by United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1885Full view - About this book
| 1904 - 1182 pages
...practise physic and surgery, shall be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was...necessary to enable him to act in that capacity." A similar law governs priests and attorneys. The New York law was subsequently amended so as to allow... | |
| Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1923 - 116 pages
...or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity. By 1906 twenty-six other States had enacted statutes similar to that of New York. It ia the secrecy... | |
| Edinburgh Obstetrical Society - 1898 - 210 pages
...practise physic or surgery is not allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was...necessary to enable him to act in that capacity.' From this it is plain that in America the three professions stand in precisely the same relationship... | |
| 1888 - 564 pages
...practice physio or surgery shall not be allowed to disclose any information which be acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was...necessary to enable him to act in that capacity." S. was on trial for murder, and his only defense was insanity. Dr. B. had, for several months preceding... | |
| 1890 - 548 pages
...practice physic or surgery shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act iu that capacity." And section 836 provides that " the last three sections apply to every examination... | |
| 1885 - 544 pages
...surgery shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired iu attending a patient iu a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity," is obligatory upon the courts of the United States sitting within that State in trials at common law.... | |
| 1880 - 688 pages
...of the Code, which forbids a physician or surgeon to disclose information acquired while attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity, was intended to protect the patient, and not to •shield one charged with his murder ; in such case... | |
| New York (State), William Wait - 1877 - 662 pages
...physic or surgery, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient, in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity. 2 RS 422, § 73. This act changes the original in letter, but not in substance. See 2 Wait's Pr. 659.... | |
| Austin Abbott - 1878 - 592 pages
...physic or surgery, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient, in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity. "§835. An attorney or counsellor at law shall not be allowed to disclose a communication, made by... | |
| New York (State) - 1880 - 668 pages
...surgery, fe88teonST 8^ia^ not ^ea^^owe^ to disclose any information which he acquired inform*- ^ attending a patient, in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity. [Id., § 73. See Dilkber v. Home L. Ins. Co., 69 NY, 256 ; Bdbcock v. The People, 15 Hun, 347 ; Gfrattan... | |
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