Tennessee HB1205 amends healthcare services regulations to restrict physicians and podiatrists from treating themselves or their immediate family.
Tennessee HB1205 amends Tennessee Code Annotated, affecting healthcare services by prohibiting physicians and podiatrists from prescribing, dispensing, or administering medication to themselves or their immediate family, except in minor, self-limited, short-term, or urgent, emergency situations. The act defines "immediate family" as a physician's or podiatrist's spouse, parent, child, sibling, or another individual with whom a personal or emotional involvement may impair professional judgment.
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