What are clinically sensitive documents?

• Clinically sensitive documents are documents that contain any information about a patient that is subject to doctor-patient confidentiality laws.
• A common example is medical records. 
• If there is a warrant, subpoena or court order for clinically sensitive documents then doctors may wish to argue that they should not be read by the judge alone and not shared with other parties.
• You should still supply the documents to the court but under a seal that asks the court not to share the documents until it hears the legal argument about why the documents should not be shared.
• If the court says the documents must be shared the doctor should inform the patient and record this in the medical record.