It is the intent of the Legislature that the board shall seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate physician assistants whose competency is impaired due to abuse of dangerous drugs or alcohol so that they may be treated and returned to the practice of medicine in a manner which will not endanger the public health and safety.
Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 3534
Diversion of Impaired Physician Assistants
Known as the Physician Assistant Practice Act
The act spans §§ 3500–3545 (76 sections).
Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 332, Sec. 66
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