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

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).

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