...Statutes, (2 RS 406,) a physician is not only excused, but prohibited, as a witness, from disclosing information which he has acquired in attending a patient in a professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient. And see...

...the revised statutes a physician is not only excused, but prohibited, as a witness, from disclosing information which he has acquired in attending a patient in a professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient (2 RS 406.)...

...the ground that it was inadmissible under section 834 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides: "A person duly authorized to practice physic and surgery...not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient In a professional capacity which was necessary to enable him to act...

...in this particular, is explicit, and is as follows: "A person duly authorised to practice physic or surgery shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he has acquired in attending a patient in his professional capacity, and which was necessary for him to act in that capacity." A similar statutory...

...is a curious contradiction that a state like New York, which has a law by which a physician is " not allowed to disclose any information which he has acquired in attending a patient," at the same time has laws which make it a misdemeanor for this same physician not to report cases of...

...for instance, the statute reads that " no person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he has...acquired in attending a patient in a professional character, which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician,...