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Nelly Lim Vs. Court Of Appeals, Et Al.

NELLY LIM, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, HON. MANUEL D. VICTORIO, as Presiding Judge of RTC-Rosales, Pangasinan, Branch 53, and JUAN SIM, respondents.

G.R. No. 91114 | 1992-09-25

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

This petition brings into focus the rule on the confidentiality of the physician-patient relationship. Petitioner urges this Court to strike down as being violative thereof the resolution of public respondent Court of Appeals in C.A.-G.R. SP No. 16991 denying due course to a petition to annul the order of the trial court allowing a Psychiatrist of the National Mental Hospital to testify as an expert witness and not as an attending physician of petitioner.

The parties are in agreement as to the following facts:

Petitioner and private respondent are lawfully married to each other.

On 25 November 1987,...