Yuma Regional Medical Center v. Superior Court

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• \requiring [the hospital] to list each written or documentary item submitted to the peer review committee is violative of the peer review privilege.\
• “As plaintiffs note, the peer review privilege does not protect information that originated outside the peer review process and that is discoverable from alternative sources”
• “[r]eview by one’s peers within a hospital is not only time consuming, unpaid work, it is also likely to generate bad feelings and result in unpopularity” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• an \order that [the hospital] disclose the names of the persons present at the peer review proceeding at issue in this case violates the peer review privilege.\
• names of the persons present at a review proceeding, the list of written or documentary items submitted to the committee, and a request for an in camera review of items alleged to be privileged violates the peer review privilege
• special action relief generally not appropriate mechanism for resolving discovery disputes

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