Syfert Injury Law Firm

Your Trusted Partner in Personal Injury & Workers' Compensation

Call Now: 904-383-7448

2018 Georgia Code 43-34-105 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 43-34-105 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 43-34-105

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

43-34-105. Performance of tasks in accordance with job description.

On receipt of notice of the board's approval, a physician assistant, under the direction of the applying physician, may perform the tasks described in the job description, provided that nothing in this Code section shall make unlawful the performance of a medical task by the physician assistant, whether or not such task is specified in the general job description, when it is performed under the direct supervision and in the presence of the physician utilizing him or her.

(Ga. L. 1972, p. 676, § 6; Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Determination of medical tasks physician's assistant eligible to perform.

- Because it is a matter strictly for the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners (now Georgia Composite Medical Board) to determine the nature and scope of the medical tasks for which any physician's assistant (PA) may be qualified to perform, the idea that any other entity can determine whether it is appropriate for a PA to perform any specific type of procedure, whether or not the procedure is contained within the PA's job description, is contrary to the purposes and intent of O.C.G.A. T. 43, C. 34, A. 4. Cardio TVP Surgical Assocs., P.C. v. Gillis, 272 Ga. 404, 528 S.E.2d 785 (2000), reversing Gillis v. Cardio TVP Surgical Assocs., P.C., 239 Ga. App. 350, 520 S.E.2d 767 (1999).

Negligence per se.

- As it was undisputed that the physician's assistant who treated and prescribed drugs for the malpractice plaintiff had not been supervised as required by O.C.G.A. §§ 43-34-103(e.1)(1) and43-34-105, no testimony from a member of the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners (now Georgia Composite Medical Board) was required to show a violation of these statutes, and the plaintiff was entitled to summary judgment on the plaintiff's claim of negligence per se. Rockefeller v. Kaiser Found. Health Plan, 251 Ga. App. 699, 554 S.E.2d 623 (2001).

Cases Citing Georgia Code 43-34-105 From Courtlistener.com

Total Results: 2

CAROLE MASO v. BRIAN ZEH

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2023-11-07

Snippet: 3 id. § 43-34-105 (“[A] physician assistant, under the direction

Cardio TVP Surgical Associates, P.C. v. Gillis

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2000-05-01

Citation: 528 S.E.2d 785, 272 Ga. 404, 2000 Fulton County D. Rep. 1618, 2000 Ga. LEXIS 327

Snippet: of the physician utilizing [the PA]," OCGA § 43-34-105, "in which case the [PA] may perform any work