Any optometrist who encounters a patient in the course of his practice who is, in the exercise of the optometrist’s professional judgment, suffering from any symptom or combination of symptoms indicating an underlying pathologic or physiologic disorder or disfunction necessitating care and treatment beyond the scope of the optometrist’s professional limitations, shall immediately refer such patient to a licensed physician for such additional treatment as may be needed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 73-19-107
Referral of patient to licensed physician
Laws, 1982, ch. 353, § 4; reenacted, Laws, 1985, ch. 374, § 5, eff from and after July 1, 1985.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.