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O.C.G.A. § 24-12-11 — Disclosure of medical records - Effect on confidential or privileged character thereof | Georgia Code
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TITLE 24 EVIDENCE

Section 12. Medical and Other Confidential Information, 24-12-1 through 24-12-31.

ARTICLE 2 CONFIDENTIALITY OF MEDICAL INFORMATION

24-12-11. Disclosure of medical records - Effect on confidential or privileged character thereof.

The disclosure of confidential or privileged medical matter constituting all or part of a record kept by a health care facility, a nurse, or a physician, pursuant to laws requiring disclosure or pursuant to limited consent to disclosure, shall not serve to destroy or in any way abridge the confidential or privileged character thereof, except for the purpose for which such disclosure is made.

(Code 1981, §24-12-11, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

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- Evidence: privilege as to facts learned on autopsy or post-mortem examination, 58 A.L.R. 1134.

Admissibility of hospital chart or other hospital record, 120 A.L.R. 1124.

Evidence: public health record as subject of privilege, 136 A.L.R. 856.

Construction and effect of statute removing or modifying, in personal injury actions, patient's privilege against disclosure by physician, 25 A.L.R.2d 1429.

Admissibility of hospital record relating to physician's opinion as to whether patient is malingering or feigning injury, 55 A.L.R.2d 1031.

Physical examination of allegedly negligent person with respect to defect claimed to have caused or contributed to accident, 89 A.L.R.2d 1001.

Waiver of privilege as regards one physician as a waiver as to other physicians, 5 A.L.R.3d 1244.

Discovery, in medical malpractice action, of names of other patients to whom defendant has given treatment similar to that allegedly injuring plaintiff, 66 A.L.R.5th 591.

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