ARTICLE 6. Physician-Patient Privilege

Article 6 enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.

§§ 990–1007 · 18 sections

• § 990 As used in this article, “physician” means a person authorized, or reasonably believed by the patient to be authorized, to practice medicine in any state or…
• § 991 As used in this article, “patient” means a person who consults a physician or submits to an examination by a physician for the purpose of securing a diagnosis…
• § 992 As used in this article, “confidential communication between patient and physician” means information, including information obtained by an examination of the…
• § 993 As used in this article, “holder of the privilege” means: (a) The patient when he has no guardian or conservator. (b) A guardian or conservator of the patient…
• § 994 Subject to Section 912 and except as otherwise provided in this article, the patient, whether or not a party, has a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to…
• § 995 The physician who received or made a communication subject to the privilege under this article shall claim the privilege whenever he is present when the…
• § 996 There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the condition of the patient if such issue has been tendered by:…
• § 997 There is no privilege under this article if the services of the physician were sought or obtained to enable or aid anyone to commit or plan to commit a crime…
• § 998 There is no privilege under this article in a criminal proceeding.
• § 999 There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the condition of the patient in a proceeding to recover damages…
• § 1000 There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue between parties all of whom claim through a deceased patient, regardless of…
• § 1001 There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue of breach, by the physician or by the patient, of a duty arising out of the…
• § 1002 There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the intention of a patient, now deceased, with respect to a deed…
• § 1003 There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the validity of a deed of conveyance, will, or other writing,…
• § 1004 There is no privilege under this article in a proceeding to commit the patient or otherwise place him or his property, or both, under the control of another…
• § 1005 There is no privilege under this article in a proceeding brought by or on behalf of the patient to establish his competence.
• § 1006 There is no privilege under this article as to information that the physician or the patient is required to report to a public employee, or as to information…
• § 1007 There is no privilege under this article in a proceeding brought by a public entity to determine whether a right, authority, license, or privilege (including…