Bellacosa, J. (dissenting). I respectfully disagree with the majority because in my view the rule in Koump v Smith ( 25 NY2d 287 ) is misapplied and then extended in a direction antithetical to that which was intended. Defendant is thus allowed to wield the physician-patient priv…
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