Petrillo v. Syntex Laboratories, Inc.

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• prohibiting defendants and their attorneys from engaging in ex parte discussions with the injured plaintiff’s treating physicians where “public policy strongly favors the confidential and fiduciary relationship existing between a patient and his physician”
• prohibiting defendants and their attorneys from engaging in ex parte discussions with the injured plaintiff’s treating physicians where “public policy strongly favors the confidential and fiduciary relationship existing between a patient and his physician”
• ex parte discussions between defense counsel and a plaintiffs treating physician shall be conducted only through authorized methods of discovery
• Public policy favors the confidentiality of the physician-patient privilege and thereby prohibits extra-judicial ex parte discussion of a patient’s medical confidences.
• ex parte discussions between defense counsel and a plaintiff's treating physician shall be conducted only through authorized methods of discovery
• defense counsel cannot engage in communication with plaintiff’s treating physician other than by court- authorized discovery methods

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).