A practitioner engaged in medical practice or research or a mid-level practitioner acting in the usual course of such mid-level practitioner's practice is not required or compelled to furnish the name or identity of a patient or research subject to the board, nor may such practitioner or mid-level practitioner be compelled in any state or local civil, criminal, administrative, legislative or other proceedings to furnish the name or identity of an individual that the practitioner or mid-level practitioner is obligated to keep confidential.

L. 1972, ch. 234, § 34; L. 1999, ch. 115, § 16; April 1, 2000.