Matter of Dave D. v. Cara C.

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• holding that the quality improvement privilege 8 “does not protect what goes into or comes out of the quality improvement 9 committees,” but does extend to “documents created as part of the inner workings 10 of the committee”
• plaintiff Dr. Leasa Lowy was the staff physician at the hospital where she was admitted as patient
• plaintiff Dr. Leasa Lowy was the staff physician at the hospital where she was admitted as patient
• the quality improvement privilege “does 16 not protect what goes into or comes out of” the committee
• “[T]he attorney-client . . . privilege! ] [is] . . . founded on the premise that communication in th[is] relationship! ] is so important that the law is willing to sacrifice its pursuit for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
• \Plain meaning may be gleaned I from all that the Legislature has said in the statute and related statutes which disclose legislative intent about the provision in question.\' (quoting Dep 't of Ecology v. Campbell & Gwinn, LLC, 146 Wn.2d 1, 11, 43 P.3d 4 (2002))

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