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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 137
BY SENATOR BUFFINGTON
HEALTH CARE. Provides relative to the practice of medicine. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 37:1262(3), relative to the practice of medicine; to provide for2
definitions; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 37:1262(3) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows: 5
ยง1262. Definition6
As used in this Part the following words and phrases shall have the meanings7
ascribed to them:8
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(3) "Practice of medicine", whether allopathic or osteopathic, means the10
holding out of one's self to the public as being engaged in the business of, or the11
actual engagement in, the diagnosing, treating, curing, or relieving of any bodily or12
mental disease, condition, infirmity, deformity, defect, ailment, or injury in any13
human being, other than himself one's self, whether by the use of any drug,14
instrument or force, whether physical or psychic, or of what other nature, or any15
other agency or means; or the examining, either gratuitously or for compensation,16
of any person or material from any person for such purpose whether such drug,17 SB NO. 137
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instrument, force, or other agency or means is applied to or used by the patient or by1
another person; or the attending of a woman in childbirth without the aid of a2
licensed physician or midwife.3
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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))