Supreme Court of Illinois

Information acquired by a dentist in attending any patient in a professional character, necessary to enable dentist to professionally serve the patient, is confidential under the physician-patient privilege, and defendants are prevented from producing any confidential patient dental records.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/05/2002
• Published 01/29/2003

Judges

• Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, and Diane M. Potts, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, of counsel), for appellant., William E. Feurer, Springfield, for amici curiae Illinois State Dental Society et al.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul E. Chronis and Mary E. Mayhan, of McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, for appellees.