from compelled disclosure conversations and other communicative conduct (“correspondence, actions and occurrences”) which relate to diagnosis or treatment, but not the diagnosis itself. See Commonwealth v. Lamb, 365 Mass. 265 (1974) (G. L. c. 233, § 20B “applies to communications”); Commonwealth v. Mandeville, 386 Mass. 393, 408 (1982) (G. L. c. 233, § 20B “grants to a ‘patient’ the privilege of preventing a witness from disclosing any communications made between himself and his ‘psychotherapist’ ”); Petitions of the Dept. of Social Servs. to Dispense with Consent to Adoption, 399 Mass. 279, 287 (1987) (“records are privileged if they contain the communications or notes of communications between the patient and a psychotherapist”). Cf. Commonwealth v. Kobrin, 395 Mass. 284, 294 (1985) (<HOLDING>); Adoption of Seth, 29 Mass. App. Ct. 343, 353
holding that a hospitals records of a patients treatment for alcoholism were protected by the physicianpatient privilege emphasis added and were therefore not discoverable in an action attempting to prove that the patient had a problem with alcohol holding that educational records are not privileged under ferpa holding the trial court erred in ordering the transcription of grand jury proceedings so that it could intervene in the operations of the grand jury holding that the first amendment protects the right to criticize a grand jury investigation holding in context of grand jury investigation into medicaid fraud that patient diagnosis is not privileged but portions of records that reflect patients thoughts feelings and impressions or contain the substance of the psychotherapeutic dialogue are protected