[Peach]

If you've ever watched a Law and Order or other legal show, you would hear repeatedly that medical records could not be released. Doctors will not talk to lawyers or cops because our medical history is confidential, as confidential as a confession to a priest.

[Destro]

I don't watch Law and Order much and to be honest-I would not base my knowledge on certain aspects of the law on a television program. But if I do recall medical records in all those programs do get opened once they get a a judge to Ok it.

If that was not the case-thinking logically-a "doctor shopping" law would not exist???

My questions are general in nature and not geared to Rush's problem pre say.

[Alberta's Child]

Doctors will not talk to lawyers or cops because our medical history is confidential, as confidential as a confession to a priest.

Actually, medical privacy is largely a construction of our modern legal system, along with the so-called "Constitutional protections of confidentiality" that are afforded (in the minds of many) to the press.

[Jack Black]

I beg to disagree. If subpoenas are put out doctors have to answer them, just like anyone else. It happens all the time. It is not the same as a priest hearing confession.

[LittleJoe]

If you've ever watched a Law and Order or other legal show

You are not living in the real world. All law shows are Hollywood soap operas.