As used in this article, “physician” means a person authorized, or reasonably believed by the patient to be authorized, to practice medicine in any state or nation.
Cal. Evid. Code § 990
Physician-Patient Privilege
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case 8 Cal. 3d 301 - North v. Superior Court (1972)
Most recently applied in 109 Cal. App. 4th 437 - People v. Barrett (June 2003)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.