148.1 Persons engaged in practice.
For the purpose of this subtitle, the following classes of persons shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery:
1. Persons who publicly profess to be physicians and surgeons or osteopathic physicians and surgeons, or who publicly profess to assume the duties incident to the practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery.
2. Persons who prescribe, or prescribe and furnish, medicine for human ailments or treat the same by surgery.
3. Persons who act as representatives of any person in doing any of the things mentioned in this section.
[C97, §2579; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2538; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §148.1]
2008 Acts, ch 1088, §44; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §170, 264
Referred to in §148.2
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 148 - MEDICINE AND SURGERY AND OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Section 148.1 - Persons engaged in practice.
Section 148.2 - Persons not engaged in practice.
Section 148.2A - Board of medicine — alternate members.
Section 148.2B - Executive director.
Section 148.3 - License to practice.
Section 148.4 - Certificates of national board.
Section 148.5 - Resident physician license.
Section 148.6 - Licensee discipline — criminal penalty.
Section 148.7 - Procedure for licensee discipline.
Section 148.8 - Voluntary surrender of license.
Section 148.8A - Relinquishment of a license — failure to renew or reinstate.
Section 148.9 - Reinstatement.
Section 148.10 - Temporary license.
Section 148.11A - Administrative medicine license.
Section 148.12 - Voluntary agreements.
Section 148.13A - Board authority over physicians supervising certain psychologists.
Section 148.13B - Requirements for prescription certificates for psychologists — joint rules.