§ 1006 Mandatory Public Health Reporting

• •Doctors and patients must share certain info with the government if the law says so.
• •If the info is supposed to be public, like some records, it’s not private.
• •This rule is only for info that anyone can look up, not secret stuff.

A doctor finds out a patient has a disease that the law says must be reported, like measles.

The doctor has to tell the health department, and if that report is public, the doctor can’t keep it secret.