The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by Christopher D. Adams.
DIGEST
Buffington (SB 137)
Present law defines "practice of medicine", whether allopathic or osteopathic, to mean the
holding out of one's self to the public as being engaged in the business of, or the actual
engagement in, the diagnosing, treating, curing, or relieving of any bodily or mental disease,
condition, infirmity, deformity, defect, ailment, or injury in any human being, other than himself,
whether by the use of any drug, instrument or force, whether physical or psychic, or of what other
nature, or any other agency or means; or the examining, either gratuitously or for compensation,
of any person or material from any person for such purpose whether such drug, instrument, force,
or other agency or means is applied to or used by the patient or by another person; or the
attending of a woman in childbirth without the aid of a licensed physician or midwife.
Proposed law makes a technical change.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 37:1262(3))