...a physician or surgeon attached to any hospital, dispensary, or other charitable institution, as to information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity at such hospital, dispensary, or charitable institution, ''shall be taken before a referee, but the...

...that: A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which...was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity. By 1906 twenty-six other States had enacted statutes similar to that of New York. It ia the secrecy...

...of nurses. In April, 1903, section 834 of the Code of Civil Procedure read as follows : " A pemon, duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, shall...necessary to enable him to act in that capacity." By chapter 331 of the Laws of 1904 this section was amended so as to read as follows : " § 834. Physicians...

...course of his professional employment; and a person qualified to practise physic or surgery is not allowed to disclose any information which he acquired...necessary to enable him to act in that capacity.' From this it is plain that in America the three professions stand in precisely the same relationship...

...of the New York Code relates to ministers, section 835 to attorneys, and section 834 provides that "a person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery...capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act iu that capacity." And section 836 provides that " the last three sections apply to every examination...

...anthorized to practice physio or surgery shall not be allowed to disclose any information which be acquired in attending a patient in a professional...necessary to enable him to act in that capacity." S. was on trial for murder, and his only defense was insanity. Dr. B. had, for several months preceding...

...of the United States sitting within that State in trials at common law. That section provides that " a person, duly authorized to practice physic or surgery,...allowed to disclose any information which he acquired iu attending a patient In a professional capacity, aud which was necessary to enable him to aotiu that...

...Section 834 of the Code, which forbids a physician or surgeon to disclose information acquired while attending a patient in a professional capacity, and...was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity, was intended to protect the patient, and not to shield one charged with his murder; in such case the...

...Wait's this act. The original has it, "min- Pr. 659. ister of the gospel, or priest of any de§ 834. A person, duly authorized to practice physic or surgery,...was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity. 2 RS 422, § 73. This act changes the original in letter, but not in substance. See 2 Wait's Pr. 659....

...of discipline, enjoined by the rules or practice of the religious body, to which he belongs. § 834. A person, duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, shall not be allowed to disclose any information to disclose which he acquired in attending a patient, in a professional sionai j , . , Vi i- , •...