Pritchard v. SwedishAmerican Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• statute allowing disclosure when patient “introduces his mental condition ... as an element of his claim or defense” interpreted as requiring patient to affirmatively place communication at issue
• the plaintiff in a medical malpractice action could not place defendant- doctor's mental condition at issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).