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Terms Used In Texas Occupations Code 157.005

  • Person: means an individual, unless the term is expressly made applicable to a partnership, association, or corporation. See Texas Occupations Code 151.002
  • Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine in this state. See Texas Occupations Code 151.002
  • Practicing medicine: means the diagnosis, treatment, or offer to treat a mental or physical disease or disorder or a physical deformity or injury by any system or method, or the attempt to effect cures of those conditions, by a person who:
    (A) publicly professes to be a physician or surgeon; or
    (B) directly or indirectly charges money or other compensation for those services. See Texas Occupations Code 151.002

A person to whom a physician delegates the performance of a medical act is not considered to be practicing medicine without a license by performing the medical act unless the person acts with knowledge that the delegation and the action taken under the delegation is a violation of this subtitle.