A DOCTOR’S EVIDENCE.
WHEN HE IS I'KIVILEUED
(Per Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 30. 'Hie lesorved judgment of the Court of Appeal was delivered this morning, in. the easo of Lucena v. the National AlutuT Life Assoc.aticn. The Court held that .the pictcction afforded medical nt?.n and tneir patients by section 8 (2) <;t the evidence Act, 108, by which a medical man cannot be compelled, without the consent of a patient, to divulge in any civil proceedings any communication made to him in his professional character by such patient, applied only to communications, .oral, written, cr by signs to' a physician ot surgeon necessary to enable him to -'rescribe or act for a patient, and did not extend t:.i information gained by a surge-:: n during hie. examination f a patient in tife course oi’ . u op ' ation. The Court adjourned till-Date ob—• IS.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 8
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144A DOCTOR’S EVIDENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 8
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