[steve50]

So you don't think doctor-patient confidentiality is a legal right? Doctors have been disciplined and even successfully sued in court for violating that. How about lawyer-client confidentiality? Confidentiality of the confessional?

What I think has nothing to do with the issue. The federal government raided both doctor and lawyer offices a couple years ago in California and I saw no outrage over the loss of "privacy rights" here then. The precedent has been set. You guys are a couple years late to this argument.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The precedent has been set.

Federal precedent cannot be grafted to Florida executive actions under Florida law. Nice try but BZZZZT.

[Bonaparte]

There are exceptions to the various statutes governing doctor-patient confidentiality. These exceptions have been in play for more than a "couple years." In the case you describe, it sounds like the doctors themselves were involved in illegal activity which triggered the "raid." My point is that there is a basic legal right to confidentiality of medical records. Doctors have been successfully sued because of this and have had to pay out bigtime for breach of contract, damages, etc. They have also been disciplined by their profession of such breaches.

It's really only common sense that there would be such statutes. If you couldn't rely on the confidentiality of sensitive communications with you doctor, lawyer or priest, you would be reluctant to divulge that information to them at all. This would obviously make it difficult for your doctor or lawyer to help you. And that would make it difficult for your doctor or lawyer to making a living.