physician-patient privilege

1. 1.

   the right of a physician to refuse to divulge confidential information from a patient without the consent of the patient

   Broaderprivilege

Questions about physician-patient privilege

What does physician-patient privilege mean?

physician-patient privilege means "the right of a physician to refuse to divulge confidential information from a patient without the consent of the patient".

Is physician-patient privilege a common word?

physician-patient privilege is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.