ALBANY – A psychiatrist’s testimony about a patient’s admissions to having sexually abused a young relative was an impermissible breach of physician-patient confidentiality, the Court of Appeals ruled in ordering a new trial for the defendant.
The judges determined 6-0 that the doctor’s statements in court did not fall under any of the recognized exceptions to physician-patient privilege under CPLR 4504[a], and that by allowing the testimony to stand, the court would be usurping the Legislature’s authority to set those exceptions.
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