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2018 Georgia Code 24-12-20 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 24-12-20 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 24-12-20

TITLE 24 EVIDENCE

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

ARTICLE 3 AIDS INFORMATION

24-12-20. Confidential nature of AIDS information.

AIDS confidential information as defined in Code Section 31-22-9.1 and disclosed or discovered within the patient-physician relationship shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed except as otherwise provided in Code Section 24-12-21.

(Code 1981, §24-12-20, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40.1 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Use of pseudonyms.

- When a patient filed suit solely alleging that the improper disclosure of HIV confidential information and the non-disclosure exception of former O.C.G.A. § 24-9-47(y) (see now O.C.G.A. § 24-12-21) did not apply, a trial court retained discretion to determine if the patient could prosecute a case under a pseudonym. Doe v. Hall, 260 Ga. App. 421, 579 S.E.2d 838 (2003) (decided under former O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40.1)

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