Physician-Employee
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from the NYLJ:

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ELLERIN, J. - The question presented by this appeal is whether a physician
whose employment is terminated because she refuses to share patients'
medical records with individuals not authorized to have them has a cause
of action against her employer for wrongful discharge. We cannot accept
defendant's argument that nothing in the law prevents it from firing the
associate director of its medical department for refusing to divulge
confidential patient information. Instead, we hold that a physician may
claim an exception to New York's employment-at-will doctrine based on an
implied-in-law obligation of her employer to, at the very least, do
nothing to prevent her from practicing medicine in compliance with the
ethical standards of the medical profession.

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rest at:

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