205.300. Equal privileges to practitioners--rights of patient. - Missouri Statutes

Equal privileges to practitioners--rights of patient.

205.300. 1. In the management of such public hospital nodiscrimination shall be made against practitioners of any schoolof medicine recognized by the laws of Missouri, and all suchlegal practitioners shall have equal privileges in treatingpatients in said hospital.

2. The patient shall have the absolute right to employ athis or her own expense his or her own physician, and when actingfor any patient in such hospital the physician employed by suchpatient shall have exclusive charge of the care and treatment ofsuch patient, and nurses therein shall as to such patient besubject to the directions of such physician; subject always tosuch general rules and regulations as shall be established by theboard of trustees under the provisions of sections 205.160 to205.340.

(RSMo 1939 § 15205)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 13988; 1919 § 12622

(1953) Osteopathic physicians and surgeons held to be practitioners of a school of medicine and physicians and surgeons within the meaning of the Missouri statutes and, therefore, a rule of a county hospital prohibiting such osteopathic physicians and surgeons from practicing within such hospital is unreasonable and in violation of the law. Stribling v. Jolley (A.), 253 S.W.2d 519.