Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 7. HOSPITALIZATION AND TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLICS, DRUG DEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS, AND DRUG ABUSERS · Article 6. RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF PATIENTS, THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, AND OTHERS GENERALLY · Part 2. RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS TO MANNER OF CARE AND TREATMENT AND AS TO MAINTENANCE AND RELEASE OF CLINICAL RECORDS

37-7-168. Right of patient’s attorney to interview physician or psychologist and staff attending patient; establishment of regulations as to release of information to patient’s attorney.

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The patient’s attorney shall have the right, at reasonable times, to interview the physician or psychologist and staff who have attended or are now attending the patient in any facility and to have the patient’s records interpreted by them. The chief medical officer is authorized and directed to establish reasonable regulations to make available to the patient’s attorney all such information in the possession of the facility as the attorney requires in order to advise and represent the patient concerning his hospitalization.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 88-402.20, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1856, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1059, § 42.

Cross references

Release of medical information generally, § 24-12-1 et seq.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, page 343; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.