as well as case law from other jurisdictions. It has been stated that, “A physician is free to testify as to the fact of his employment or being consulted by, attendance on, and treatment of, a certain patient, the fact that the patient was ill, the place and duration of the treatment, the number and dates of his visits, and similar facts.” 97 C.J.S. Witnesses § 295 (1957). Another authority on privileges notes: A doctor’s conclusions, diagnoses, and treatments are usually covered by the privilege, even though they may not themselves reveal patient communications. The rationale for this result is that patients may avoid therapy or treatment if not guaranteed confidentiality. The privilege does not, however, shield from disclosure the fact that the patient receive 927 (Colo.1947) (<HOLDING>); Entian v. Provident Mut. Life Ins. Co. of
holding that disclosure of home addresses implicates privacy interests because although addresses are publicly available inclusion of addresses in the notification may expose offenders to harassment holding that in a prosecution against a physician for conspiracy to commit abortion records showing the names addresses and telephone numbers of patients did not fall within the patientphysician privilege holding criminal conspiracy is sustained where the commonwealth establishes the defendant entered into an agreement to commit or aid in an unlawful act with another person with a shared criminal intent and an overt act was done in furtherance of the conspiracy a coconspirator may commit the overt act and conspirators are liable for acts of the coconspirators committed in furtherance of the conspiracy holding that plaintiffs alleged a credible threat of real and immediate harm stemming from the theft of a laptop containing their unencrypted personal data which included their names addresses and social security numbers holding that prior felony drug convictions that fall within the conspiracy period may be used to enhance the defendants sentence if the conspiracy continued after his earlier convictions were final