Ex Parte Qureshi

The question presented by these petitions for the writ of mandamus is whether certain records of Vaughan Regional Medical Center, Inc. ("Vaughan Regional"), relating to a staff physician are privileged under state law and, therefore, not subject to discovery. The trial judge held that some of the records were discoverable, but that some of them were not discoverable because, he said, the discovery request was "overly broad." To the extent that the trial court ordered that the records were discoverable, we conclude that he erred. Therefore, we grant the petitions of Dr. F.H. Qureshi, Central…