California Evidence Code ARTICLE 6 - Physician-Patient Privilege

• Section 990.
  As used in this article, “physician” means a person authorized, or reasonably believed by the patient to be authorized, to practice medicine in any state...
• Section 991.
  As used in this article, “patient” means a person who consults a physician or submits to an examination by a physician for the purpose of...
• Section 992.
  As used in this article, “confidential communication between patient and physician” means information, including information obtained by an examination of the patient, transmitted between a...
• Section 993.
  As used in this article, “holder of the privilege” means:(a) The patient when he has no guardian or conservator.(b) A guardian or conservator of the patient when...
• Section 994.
  Subject to Section 912 and except as otherwise provided in this article, the patient, whether or not a party, has a privilege to refuse to...
• Section 995.
  The physician who received or made a communication subject to the privilege under this article shall claim the privilege whenever he is present when the...
• Section 996.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the condition of the patient if such issue has...
• Section 997.
  There is no privilege under this article if the services of the physician were sought or obtained to enable or aid anyone to commit or...
• Section 998.
  There is no privilege under this article in a criminal proceeding.(Enacted by Stats. 1965, Ch. 299.)
• Section 999.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the condition of the patient in a proceeding to...
• Section 1000.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue between parties all of whom claim through a deceased patient,...
• Section 1001.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue of breach, by the physician or by the patient, of...
• Section 1002.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the intention of a patient, now deceased, with respect...
• Section 1003.
  There is no privilege under this article as to a communication relevant to an issue concerning the validity of a deed of conveyance, will, or...
• Section 1004.
  There is no privilege under this article in a proceeding to commit the patient or otherwise place him or his property, or both, under the...
• Section 1005.
  There is no privilege under this article in a proceeding brought by or on behalf of the patient to establish his competence.(Enacted by Stats. 1965,...
• Section 1006.
  There is no privilege under this article as to information that the physician or the patient is required to report to a public employee, or...
• Section 1007.
  There is no privilege under this article in a proceeding brought by a public entity to determine whether a right, authority, license, or privilege (including...

Last modified: October 22, 2018