Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholicism. What had been largely a church of immigrant ethnic groups at the turn of the century became part of the pluralistic weave of American life, ready to shuck its minority-minded defensiveness and its sense of dependency on authority overseas. With deep insight and patient scholarship, Father Murray incorporated the U.S. secular doctrines of church-state separation and freedom of conscience into the spiritual tradition of Roman Catholicism...
...doctor-patient relationship is an intimate one. Most states consider such relationships privileged, and therefore what a man tells his doctor about his ill ness is as inadmissible in court as what he tells his lawyer or spouse. But what of the state-employed psychiatrist who treats an accused criminal? If the crim inal enters a defense of insanity, can the psychiatrist be a witness against him? Now the Minnesota Supreme Court has refused to create an exception for state psychiatrists. A doctor-patient relationship is a doctor-patient relationship, said the court, no matter who employs the doctor...
Speaking for the unanimous eight-man court, Justice William P. Murphy pointed out that the statute barring a doctor's testimony without patient's consent "makes no distinction between 'public' and 'private' physician-patient relationships. The purpose behind the statute is to inspire confidence in patients to make full disclosure of symptoms and conditions to physicians. Such confidence is deemed necessary to the efficacy of treatment. This is especially so in the case of state hospitals for the mentally ill, where complete confidence in the attending physicians is a sine...
...agreed to the physician's examination knowing that its purpose is to secure evidence that can be used against him. But, said Murphy: "It does not seem to us that the state should have to rely on the privileged testimony of a state-employed psychiatrist to prove that patient-defendants were not insane at the moment of their crimes...
Judgments are made of the patient. "Is he sick enough for Wellmet...