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HOUSE BILL 2820
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By Representatives Thibaudeau, L. Johnson, Dyer, Flemming, B. Thomas, Van Luven and Long
Read first time 01/24/94. Referred to Committee on Health Care.
AN ACT Relating to the practice of medicine; and amending RCW 18.71.011 and 18.57.001.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 18.71.011 and 1975 1st ex.s. c 171 s 15 are each amended to read as follows:
A person is practicing medicine if he or she does one or more of the following:
(1) Offers or undertakes to diagnose, cure, advise or prescribe for any human disease, ailment, injury, infirmity, deformity, pain or other condition, physical or mental, real or imaginary, by any means or instrumentality;
(2) Administers or prescribes drugs or medicinal preparations to be used by any other person;
(3) ((Severs or
penetrates the tissues of human beings)) Performs surgery, which
includes but is not limited to, severing, penetrating, or otherwise altering
the skin or tissue of human beings by the use of mechanical means, laser, or
ionizing radiation. No other profession may perform surgery, as defined in
this section, unless expressly permitted to do so by statute;
(4) Uses on cards, books, papers, signs or other written or printed means of giving information to the public, in the conduct of any occupation or profession pertaining to the diagnosis or treatment of human disease or conditions the designation "doctor of medicine", "physician", "surgeon", "m.d." or any combination thereof unless such designation additionally contains the description of another branch of the healing arts for which a person has a license: PROVIDED HOWEVER, That a person licensed under this chapter shall not engage in the practice of chiropractic as defined in RCW 18.25.005.
Sec. 2. RCW 18.57.001 and 1991 c 160 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Board" means the Washington state board of osteopathic medicine and surgery;
(2) "Department" means the department of health;
(3) "Secretary" means the secretary of health; and
(4) "Osteopathic medicine and surgery" means the use of any and all methods in the treatment of disease, injuries, deformities, and all other physical and mental conditions in and of human beings, including the use of osteopathic manipulative therapy. The term means the same as "osteopathy and surgery".
(5) Surgery, for the purposes of this chapter, includes but is not limited to, severing, penetrating, or otherwise altering the skin or tissue of human beings by the use of mechanical means, laser, or ionizing radiation. No other profession may perform surgery, as defined in this section, unless expressly permitted to do so by statute.
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