California Supreme Court
May 4, 2017
State high court mulls privacy of medical records in doctor inquiries
The state medical board's authority to collect prescription records must be curbed in order to protect the constitutional privacy rights of patients, a doctor argued to the state Supreme Court Wednesday.




Daily Journal Staff Writer
The state medical board's authority to collect prescription records must be curbed in order to protect the constitutional privacy rights of patients, a doctor argued to the state Supreme Court Wednesday.
Alwin Carl Lewis, a Burbank-based physician, claims that the Medical Board of California should have obtained a warrant or subpoena to review the records of five of his pati...
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