A patient has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications among the patient, the patient’s doctor or persons who are participating in the diagnosis or treatment under the direction of the doctor, including members of the patient’s family.
NRS 49.225
General rule of privilege
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Cleghorn v. Hess (1993)
Most recently applied in MITCHELL, D.O. VS. DIST. CT. (BUNTING) (April 2015)
(Added to NRS by 1971, 785)
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: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.