Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Longa patientia trahitur ad consensum

Long sufferance is construed as consent.

doctor patient privilege

The right to exclude from evidence in a legal proceeding any confidential communication that a patient makes to a physician for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment, unless the patient consents to the disclosure. - Also termed physician-client privilege; patient physician privilege.

doctor-patient privilege

See PRIVILEGE (3).

nuda patientia

[Latin] Mere sufferance.

patient

, n A person under medical "r psychiatric care.

patient physician privilege.

See doctor-patient privilege.

patient's bill of rights.

A general statement of patient rights voluntarily adopted by a healthcare provider or mandated by statute, covering such matters as access to care, patient dignity and confidentiality, personal safety, consent .to treatment, and explanation of charges.

patient-litigant exception.

An exemption from the doctor-patient privilege, whereby the privilege is lost when the patient sues the doctor for negligence malpractice

patient-physician privilege

. See doctor patient privilege under PRIVILEGE (3).

psychotherapist patient privilege

A privilege that a person can invoke to prevent the disclosure of a confidential communication made in the course of diagnosis or treatment of a mental or emotional condition by or at the direction of a psychotherapist. a The privilege can be overcome under certain conditions, as when the examination is ordered by a court. - Also termed psychotherapist-client privilege.

psychotherapist-patient privilege

See PRIVILEGE (3). PT)(. See previously taxed income under INCOME.