Federal Betterment Co. v. Reeves

(dissenting) : I dissent from the statement of law in the second paragraph of the syllabus. I think an attending physician is competent to testify, unless the matter is privileged, to his conclusions with reference to .the character and extent of a patient’s complaint or injury, and to base his opinion upon his examination and treatment in connection with the “history of the case” obtained from the patient. If the patient relates to him the manner in which he was injured, and even the details of the accident, it is not to be presumed that the physician permits such statements to affect his…