Originally published: . Volume 7, No. 5. Source pages: 6.
Senator Ryan Gatti has proposed SB 36 to make it an intentional tort (an illegal act) and not subject to the present laws about medical malpractice, for a physician to hold himself out as a specialist in an area of medicine in which he is not board certified or credentialed. From the legislative digest: “Proposed law clarifies that intentionally representing oneself as a specialist without having obtained the required clinical training, education and board certification shall cause a physician, his employer, hospital or corporation to be subject to liability under the general tort law.”
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