SHOULD DOCTORS SPEAK?
QUESTION IN COMMONS “PARLIAMENT AFFRONTED” By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Tuesday. Dr. E. G. Graham Little, Independent member for London University, has introduced a Bill into the House of Commons providing that certain communications between doctors and their patients shall be regarded as privileged in law and not disclosable in evidence. He said that after the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases in 1916 had made its report regulations were issued making information between doctors and their patients absolutely confidential. An explicit assurance was given that the clinics would observe the strictest secrecy. Mr. Justice McCardie, in a recent decision, had shattered that assurance, and had affronted Parliament by ordering such disclosure by doctors who were giving evidence. The Bill was read a first time. —A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 11
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