Privileged communications

Medical and other health care-related information concerning a patient obtained by a podiatric physician or by an employee of a podiatric physician during the course of examination, diagnosis or treatment and advice, diagnosis, orders, prescriptions and other health care-related communications from a podiatric physician or an employee of a podiatric physician are confidential communications protected in courts of law and administrative proceedings by the physician-patient privilege. History: 1978 Comp., § 61-8-15, enacted by Laws 1998, ch. 24, § 16; 2023, ch. 141, § 17.