of trust and confidence between the patient and provider and the extremely personal and sensitive information frequently di of Columbia have statutes that protect the communication between patients and their therapists. Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1, 12, 116 S.Ct. 1923, 1929, 135 L.Ed.2d 337, 346 (1996). Our legislature has separately considered the special interest involved in mental health and psychological i p to trial testimony and is guarded by the same basic underlying considerations. Moreover, it is important to discuss the privilege in the context of the statute because the statute has been the forum largely responsible for the development of the law, even though the privilege also has its roots in the broad constitutional right to privacy. See McMaster, 509 N.W.2d at 758 (<HOLDING>). Nevertheless, our legislature has left
recognizing an individuals right of privacy in the content of health records and noting that health records are the property of the health care entity maintaining them recognizing counsels ability to waive statutory right to a mental health hearing holding that constitutional right of privacy does not apply to medical records recognizing the roots of the right to privacy in mental health records recognizing a constitutional right of privacy in mental health records