City of Racine v. Woiteshek

The appeal is based upon asserted error in the exclusion of Dr. Cook’s evidence. The applicable statute reads:

“325.21 Communications to doctors. No physician or surgeon shall be permitted to disclose any information he may have acquired in attending any patient in a professional character, necessary to enable him professionally to serve such patient, except only (1) in trials for homicide when the disclosure relates directly to the fact or immediate circumstances of the homicide, (2) in all lunacy inquiries, (3) in actions, civil or criminal, against the physician for malpractice, (4) with…