PHYSICIAN-PATIENT PRIVILEGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does physician-patient privilege mean? 

• PHYSICIAN-PATIENT PRIVILEGE (noun)
  The noun PHYSICIAN-PATIENT PRIVILEGE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PHYSICIAN-PATIENT PRIVILEGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHYSICIAN-PATIENT PRIVILEGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("physician-patient privilege" is a kind of...):

privilege ((law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship)