Giangiulio v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital

This is an interlocutory appeal filed by the defendant, Ingalls Memorial Hospital (Ingalls), pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 308 (155 Ill. 2d R. 308), from an order that granted the plaintiffs, Debra Giangiulio, motion to compel discovery and required Ingalls to answer certain interrogatories and to produce an object. Ingalls argues that the information and the object sought to be discovered by the plaintiff were protected from disclosure by the physician-patient privilege (735 ILCS 5/8 — 802 (West 2002)), the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act (Confidentiality…