Kennestone Hospital, Inc. v. Hopson

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• failure to object to discovery request from third party did not impliedly waive psychiatrist-patient privilege
• “[T]he fact that a patient has undergone psychiatric treatment and the dates of the care are not subject to the psychiatrist-patient privilege[,]”
• “[A] party’s silence and failure to act in response to a request for privileged matter from a nonparty health care provider or facility under OCGA § 9-11-34 (c) (2) does not waive the party’s privilege by implication.”
• failure to object to discovery does not waive psychiatric privilege
• “Waiver is the voluntary relinquishment of a known right and may be established by express statements or implied by conduct. An implied waiver is one shown by a party’s decisive, unequivocal conduct reasonably inferring the intent to waive.” (punctuation and footnotes omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).