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...sterilizes only with Essure, says, "The most important job we have is to make sure people are absolutely certain." He discussed the issue for a year with Chastity Taylor, who is only 29 and has one daughter, before implanting the coils in her in September. The doctor, his patient and her husband are convinced it was the right choice; otherwise, Taylor says, "I would have stayed on the IUD forever...
...rule creates a psychotherapist-patient privilege for the detainees, and greatly restricts the government's access to mental health records. This will doubtlessly result in considerable litigation, where allegations of torture and abuse are raised at trial...
...interest in protecting the privilege outweighs the public's interest in having all the evidence for a fair trial. Some are obviously necessary (e.g. lawyer-client), some are more historical than practical (e.g. priest-penitent), and some are quite questionable (e.g. spousal privilege). The theory underlying the psychotherapist-patient privilege is that it is more important for the patient to have unfettered access to mental health care than it is for the government to have access to the mental health records. In Jaffee v. Redmond, the Supreme Court found that was true for the people...
...Comm. R. Evid. 501 is taken from the military rules, but it did not include 501(d), which specifically rejected the physician-patient privilege. The government's ability to obtain access to detainee medical records has become a big issue. Under the existing law, there is no basis for denying the government such access. Amending this rule to conform to military practice would help clarify this issue...
...rules under consideration would make it easier for government prosecutors to gather evidence that could be used to build cases against the suspected terrorists. One proposal calls for getting rid of the "psychotherapist-patient privilege" for Guantánamo prisoners because, as the document explains, it "greatly restricts the government's access to mental health records." The same argument is made for the "physician-patient privilege" so that detainee medical records might be used at trial. The U.S. Supreme Court has long upheld both privileges for Americans under most circumstances...