Virgina Privilege Statute and Medical Malpractice

Attorney Sandy Waterman

Several decades ago in Virginia when medical malpractice was coming to the fore, healthcare interests obtained the passage of a so-called privilege statute. Facially, it was stated as protecting so-called quality control and peer review materials. But what happened is the healthcare providers abused that.

They used that statute to create a system of double books basically to launder patient charts of unfavorable information. So they would instruct nurses to complete patient charts in a very sanitized way and record the details of unintended events, malpractice, in separate records that they designated hospital records and then would not turn over to the lawyers when they asked for the records.

Naturally, this tended to hide and understate the incidents of medical malpractice.

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Virgina Privilege Statute and Medical Malpractice

Attorney Sandy Waterman

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