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MINNESOTA STATUTES AND CODES
Section 148.572 Advice to Seek Diagnosis and Treatment
148.572 ADVICE TO SEEK DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.
Whether or not topical ocular drugs have been used, if any licensed optometrist is informed by a patient or determines from examining a patient, using judgment and that degree of skill, care, knowledge and attention ordinarily possessed and exercised by optometrists in good standing under like circumstances, that there are present in that patient signs or symptoms which may be evidence of disease that requires treatment that is beyond the practice of optometry permitted by law, then the licensed optometrist shall (1) promptly advise that patient to seek evaluation by an appropriate licensed physician for diagnosis and possible treatment and (2) not attempt to treat such condition by the use of drugs or any other means.
History:
1982 c 388 s 2; 1993 c 121 s 4