Ex Parte Anderson

Robert E. Anderson, M.D., the defendant in a medical-malpractice action pending in the Dallas Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing the circuit court to vacate its order compelling Dr. Anderson to comply with certain discovery requests and directing it to issue a protective order. We stayed enforcement of the trial court's discovery order pending our review of this petition. We grant the petition in part and deny it in part.

After finding a questionable bump on his forehead in January 1998, James Harold Trotter, Sr., was referred to Dr. Anderson for further consultation.…