Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 38-2024

Current with changes through the 2024 First Special Legislative Session

Section 38-2024 - Practice of medicine and surgery, defined

For purposes of the Uniform Credentialing Act, and except as provided in section 38-2025 or as otherwise provided by law, the following classes of persons shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery:

(1) Persons who publicly profess to be physicians or surgeons or publicly profess to assume the duties incident to the practice of medicine, surgery, or any of their branches;

(2) Persons who prescribe and furnish medicine for some illness, disease, ailment, injury, pain, deformity, or any physical or mental condition, or treat the same by surgery;

(3) Persons holding themselves out to the public as being qualified in the diagnosis or treatment of diseases, ailments, pain, deformity, or any physical or mental condition, or injuries of human beings;

(4) Persons who suggest, recommend, or prescribe any form of treatment for the intended palliation, relief, or cure of any physical or mental ailment of any person;

(5) Persons who maintain an office for the examination or treatment of persons afflicted with ailments, diseases, injuries, pain, deformity, or any physical or mental condition of human beings;

(6) Persons who attach to their name the title of M.D., surgeon, physician, physician and surgeon, or any word or abbreviation and who indicate that they are engaged in the treatment or diagnosis of ailments, diseases, injuries, pain, deformity, infirmity, or any physical or mental condition of human beings; and

(7) Persons who are physically located in another state but who, through the use of any medium, including an electronic medium, perform for compensation any service which constitutes the healing arts that would affect the diagnosis or treatment of an individual located in this state.

Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 38-2024

Laws 1927, c. 167, § 100, p. 482; C.S.1929, § 71-1401; Laws 1943, c. 150, § 18, p. 546; R.S.1943, § 71-1,102; Laws 1969, c. 563, § 1, p. 2291; Laws 1997, LB 452, § 1; Laws 2006, LB 833, § 2; R.S.Supp.,2006, § 71-1,102; Laws 2007, LB463, § 682.