The state Superior Court has refused to make discoverable records pertaining to a defendant surgeon’s treatment of third-party patients.
The court said those records were irrelevant to the allegations in the current medical malpractice case and that the plaintiffs’ “collateral evidentiary interest when weighed against the need for confidentiality of the records of third parties who have not given their consent does not overcome the right to privacy.”
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