Fwd: Subpoena

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From: MLAVCAVITT

To: PTManager

Sent: 11/21/2008 6:34:17 A.M. Central Standard Time

Subj: Re: Subpoena

Dear Jeff,

The attached is a Medical Economics article entitled, " You just received a

subpoena. Now what? "

Vickie

D. Cavitt, President

Medical Legal Alliance

600 Guilbeau Road, Sute A

Lafayette, LA 70506

_http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/memag/Young+Doctors'+Resource+Cent

er:+Malpractice:+Depositions%2Ftestimony/You-just-received-a-subpoena-Now-what

/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/117389_

(http://medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com/memag/Young+Doctors'+Resource+Center\

:+Malpractice:+Depositions/testimony

/You-just-received-a-subpoena-Now-what/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/117389)

In a message dated 11/20/2008 7:50:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,

jeff@... writes:

Hi group--New experience for me today when my desk staff contacted me

at home to let me know that a sheriff was in my office to serve a

subpoena. Since my marriage seems sound and I have a pretty dull closet

(skeleton-wise, that is) I went back to the office fairly assured.

Indeed, it was an order to turn over medical records in a case wherein

a former patient was sueing a trucking firm regarding the accident in

which she was injured.

The subpoena was from the attorneys of the trucking firm, and was not

accompanied by a medical release form. I faxed a letter to the firm

indicating that I could not release medical information without a

release from the plaintiff. I called the attorneys' office to inform

them of this verbally.

So ....will my Thanksgiving dinner be interrupted by a SWAT squad? Has

anyone experienced this approach before for records? I'm more

accustomed to the written request accompanied by a release... Was my

response the correct one?

Thanks------Thanks------<WBR>--------Jeff Woodruff, Woodruff Physical Therapy

NH

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