Parkson v. Central DuPage Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• denying a discovery request for redacted nonparty medical records after the court concluded that redaction would not sufficiently protect the patients’ expectation of privacy when they disclosed “prior and present medical conditions” to their doctors
• denying a discovery request for redacted nonparty medical records after the court concluded that redaction would not sufficiently protect the patients’ expectation of privacy when they disclosed “prior and present medical conditions” to their doctors
• denying a discovery request for redacted nonparty medical records after the court concluded that redaction would not sufficiently protect the patients’ expectation of privacy when they disclosed “prior and present medical conditions” to their doctors
• patients’ medical records contain information which in the cumulative can make the possibility of recognition of the patients very high
• “Whether the patients’ identities would remain confidential by the exclusion of their names and identifying numbers is questionable at best.”
• plaintiff not entitled to disclosure of nonparty patient medical records of patients who had suffered an adverse reaction to the drug given to the plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).