Oregon Statutes 677.085 – What constitutes practice of medicine
A person is practicing medicine if the person does one or more of the following:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 677.085
- Diagnose: means to examine another person in any manner to determine the source or nature of a disease or other physical or mental condition, or to hold oneself out or represent that a person is so examining another person. See Oregon Statutes 677.010
- Drug: means all medicines and preparations for internal or external use of humans, intended to be used for the cure, mitigation or prevention of diseases or abnormalities of humans, which are recognized in any published United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, or otherwise established as a drug. See Oregon Statutes 677.010
- Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
- Prescribe: means to direct, order or designate the use of or manner of using by spoken or written words or other means. See Oregon Statutes 677.010
(1) Advertise, hold out to the public or represent in any manner that the person is authorized to practice medicine in this state.
(2) For compensation directly or indirectly received or to be received, offer or undertake to prescribe, give or administer any drug or medicine for the use of any other person.
(3) Offer or undertake to perform any surgical operation upon any person.
(4) Offer or undertake to diagnose, cure or treat in any manner, or by any means, methods, devices or instrumentalities, any disease, illness, pain, wound, fracture, infirmity, deformity, defect or abnormal physical or mental condition of any person.
(5) Except as provided in ORS § 677.060, append the letters ‘M.D.,’ ‘D.O.’ or ‘P.A.’ to the person’s name, or use the words ‘Doctor,’ ‘Physician,’ ‘Surgeon,’ ‘Physician Assistant,’ or any abbreviation or combination thereof, or any letters or words of similar import in connection with the person’s name, or any trade name in which the person is interested, in the conduct of any occupation or profession pertaining to the diagnosis or treatment of human diseases or conditions mentioned in this section. [Formerly 677.030; 1989 c.830 § 3; 2023 c.314 § 1]