Posted on 12/12/2005 2:30:51 PM PST by M. Thatcher
MIAMI, Dec 12, 2005 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh's attorney, issued the following statement regarding Judge David F. Crow's decision today prohibiting prosecutors from asking the talk show host's doctors about his medical treatment and condition or information he shared with his doctors during his care and treatment.
Judge Crow's ruling upholds our argument that the State cannot breach doctor-patient confidentiality just because it has obtained some medical records, and thus the state cannot ask the doctors its questions posed to the court during the hearing.
Judge Crow's decision prohibits the State from questioning Mr. Limbaugh's physicians about "the medical condition of the patient and any information disclosed to the healthcare practitioner by the patient in the course of the care and treatment of the patient."
We are pleased with the court's ruling upholding the patient's statutory right of doctor-patient confidentiality. We've said from the start that there was no doctor shopping but Mr. Limbaugh should not have to give up his right to doctor-patient confidentiality to prove his innocence.
The medical records that the State has seized and reviewed now for nearly six months show that Mr. Limbaugh received legitimate medical treatment for legitimate medical reasons. Mr. Limbaugh has not been charged with a crime and he should not be charged.
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Your Brain lives up to your name - Sloth.
You seem to know a lot about masturbation.
O'Reilly is not conservative or Republican. He just plays one on TV.
Your ad hominems are more strident.
Proof is in the pudding douchebag.
I heard the tapes.
You must have your head stuck up your ass, because you missed the blatant attacks on me that had nothing to do with the argument.
"When other well-known people have developed presciption drug dependencies, they have been smothered in support. Betty Ford has a clinic named after her. But Rush Limbaugh, and Rush Limbaugh alone, has been pursued by an obsessed political enemy using his office as prosecutor to take out the most important conservative in the mass media."
Robert Downey had a different kind of drug dependency.
I really want him to put the hurt on someone; he's got the resources, and it's not like his enemies will hate him any less if he stays his (legal) hand.
You have no proof, you have only allegations.
Deal with facts not simple assertions.
God, whats it like to walk into a party have everyone think to themselves, "Oh Sh*t, he's here..this is gonna suck??"
Douchebag, hey that's good you dumbphuc...
Don't use this board to describe your relationship with your mother.
Thankyou.
I love rolls! Especially the buttery curved ones; croissants! And those crusty Italian rolls are great too. I call 'em like I see 'em ;0)
Sometimes you feel like a nut... sometimes you dont!!!
I wish all Republicans were as ridgid as you!!! Except when they're wrong... (grin)
You really ought to lighten up on the most conservative entertainer in Earth's history!!!
"Robert Downey had a different kind of drug dependency."
You didn't say it had to be prescription drugs. And I believe you are assuming that the prosecutor would recommend jail time rather than than drug rehab, if Limbaugh were to be convicted.
Maybe the prosecutor was hoping to pressure Rush into founding a clinic in Florida...
I think we have a sleeper troll who has finally awoke.
Knock off the personal attacks!
They attacked me first and I was rather polite in my reply.
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