Mull v. String

This is an appeal from a judgment granting a motion to dismiss a patient's action against his physician for breach of fiduciary duty and breach of implied contract based upon the physician's alleged unauthorized disclosure of confidential information pertaining to a physical injury which was then the subject of a malpractice action against a hospital.

On January 15, 1980, Rast Mull filed an action against Providence Hospital in Mobile, Alabama, contending that he had been burned by a heating pad while a patient in the hospital. Mull's attorney then wrote to Dr. Samuel Timothy String, the…