Legal Article Available Free Establishing Privilege for Medical Documents

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Establishing Privilege for Medical Documents

By Robert A. Clifford

Elizabeth Ryan's husband was terminally ill from pancreatic cancer. She felt that Staten Island University Hospital lured him into useless treatment using false advertising and misrepresentations of treatments that promised a 95 percent success rate.

She sued the hospital and others alleging fraud, medical malpractice, and violations of New York's consumer protection and public health laws. To prove these allegations, the plaintiff sought the hospital's radiosurgery database, which contained the names of people who received such treatment and their outcomes, back-up CDs, and hard drives, subject to the redaction of the patients' personal information.

It wasn't until the hospital was served with a third set of interrogatories and production of documents that it objected, claiming the documents were privileged.

Who was entitled to these documents

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that the decedent's wife was entitled to these documents. Ryan v. Staten Island University Hospital, E.D.N.Y. , No. 04-2666 (decided Dec. 5, 2006).

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Legal Article Available Free Establishing Privilege for Medical Documents

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