Physician-Patient Privilege
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case 80 Cal. App. 4th 1050 - Johnson v. Superior Court (2000)
Most recently applied in Pub. Guardian of the Cnty. of San Luis Obispo v. S.A. (In re S.A.) (July 2018)
Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.
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.
As used in this article, “holder of the privilege” means:
(a) The patient when he has no guardian or conservator.
(b) A guardian or conservator of the patient when the patient has a guardian or conservator.
(c) The personal representative of the patient if the patient is dead.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.