BAPTIST MEM. HOSP. v. JOHNSON

No. 98-IA-00175-SCT.

754 So.2d 1165 (2000)

BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL-UNION COUNTY v. Sammy JOHNSON and Deena Lynn Johnson, Individually and Next Friend of a Minor, Namely, Kayla Elizabeth Johnson.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 6, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael N. Watts, Oxford, Angela M. Spivey, Water Valley, Attorneys for Appellant.

Rebecca Phipps, Corinth, Jerry Bythel Read, Biloxi, Attorneys for Appellees.

BEFORE PRATHER, C.J., BANKS AND McRAE, JJ.


McRAE, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. An interlocutory appeal from the Union County Circuit Court concerning patient-physician privileges invoked by a hospital to keep confidential the identity of its patient and her medical records is before this Court. After ordering the disclosure of the identity of the patient and her records, Judge R. Kenneth Coleman entered an interlocutory appeal order asking for a determination of the scope of the statutory patient-physician...

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