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2018 Georgia Code 43-34-101 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 43-34-101 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 43-34-101

TITLE 43 PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES

Section 34. Physicians, Acupuncture, Physician Assistants, Cancer and Glaucoma Treatment, Respiratory Care, Clinical Perfusionists, and Orthotics and Prosthetics Practice, 43-34-1 through 43-34-290.

ARTICLE 4 PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

43-34-101. Legislative purpose.

  1. To alleviate the growing shortage and geographic maldistribution of health care services in this state, the General Assembly intends, by this article, to recognize physician assistants and their role in addressing this growing health care shortage.
  2. This article is intended to encourage the more effective utilization of the skills of physicians by enabling them to delegate health care tasks to such assistants where such delegation is consistent with the patient's health and welfare.

(Ga. L. 1972, p. 676, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Cardio TVP Surgical Assocs., P.C. v. Gillis, 272 Ga. 404, 528 S.E.2d 785 (2000).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 43-34-101

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Cardio TVP Surgical Assocs., P.C. v. Gillis, 528 S.E.2d 785 (Ga. 2000).

Cited 9 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | May 1, 2000 | 272 Ga. 404, 2000 Fulton County D. Rep. 1618

...The General Assembly enacted the Physician's Assistant Act, OCGA § 43-34-100 et seq., "to encourage the more effective utilization of the skills of physicians by enabling them to delegate health care tasks to [physician's assistants] where such delegation is consistent with the patient's health and welfare." OCGA § 43-34-101(b)....
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Carole Maso v. Brian Zeh, 317 Ga. 769 (Ga. 2023).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Nov 7, 2023

...n application, the assistant gets a li- cense “authorizing the assistant to perform medical tasks under the direction and supervision” of the applying physician (emphasis added)). 5 across the State. OCGA § 43-34-101 (a).4 So I agree with the Court’s decision not to grant further review of this case, but I am open to reviewing these important questions about vicarious liability in an appropriate case. I am authorized to state that Justice...

Carole Maso v. Brian Zeh (Ga. 2023).

Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Nov 7, 2023

...3 That said, this question is undoubtedly an important one, par- ticularly given the prevalence of physician assistants across Georgia and their role in the General Assembly’s mission to “alleviate the growing shortage and geographic maldistribution of health care” across the State. OCGA § 43-34-101 (a).4 So I agree with the Court’s 3 Further complicating our review of this question, it appears that the physician sued in this case is not the “primary supervising physician” of the physician assistant here....