PUBLIC HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 368 of 1978
333.18011 Practice of podiatric medicine and surgery or as physician's assistant; license or authorization required; use of words, titles, or letters.Sec. 18011.
(1) A person shall not engage in the practice of podiatric medicine and surgery or practice as a physician's assistant unless licensed or otherwise authorized by this article.
(2) The following words, titles, or letters or a combination thereof, with or without qualifying words or phrases, are restricted in use only to those persons authorized under this part to use the terms and in a way prescribed in this part: "chiropodist", "chiropody", "chiropodical", "podiatry", "podiatrist", "podiatric", "doctor of podiatric medicine", "foot specialist", "podiatric physician and surgeon", and "d.p.m.".
History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
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Am. 2006, Act 161, Eff. Nov. 26, 2006
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Am. 2006, Act 391, Imd. Eff. Sept. 27, 2006
Popular Name: Act 368
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