In re "K"

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center appeals an order of the Superior Court (Morrill, J.) requiring Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital to provide a former patient with two documents, a report of the hospital’s nurse epidemiologist and minutes of the hospital’s Infections Committee, each addressing the possibility that the patient contracted herpes while in the hospital. We hold the report and minutes privileged against disclosure under RSA 151:13-a (Supp. 1988) and reverse.

The plaintiff, who has been designated by the letter "K” to preserve anonymity, was admitted to the maternity section of…