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ORS 677.085

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 149 Or. App. 171 - Oregon State Bar v. Smith (1997)

Most recently applied in 292 Or. App. 778 - Sachdev v. Or. Med. Bd. (July 2018)

Formerly 677.030; 1989 c.830 §3; 2023 c.314 §1; 2024 c.73 §122

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

A person is practicing medicine if the person does one or more of the following:

(1) Advertise, hold out to the public or represent in any manner that the person is authorized to practice medicine in this state.

(2) For compensation directly or indirectly received or to be received, offer or undertake to prescribe, give or administer any drug or medicine for the use of any other person.

(3) Offer or undertake to perform any surgical operation upon any person.

(4) Offer or undertake to diagnose, cure or treat in any manner, or by any means, methods, devices or instrumentalities, any disease, illness, pain, wound, fracture, infirmity, deformity, defect or abnormal physical or mental condition of any person.

(5) Except as provided in ORS 677.060, append the letters “M.D.,” “D.O.” or “P.A.” to the person’s name, or use the words “Doctor,” “Physician,” “Surgeon,” “Physician Associate,” or any abbreviation or combination thereof, or any letters or words of similar import in connection with the person’s name, or any trade name in which the person is interested, in the conduct of any occupation or profession pertaining to the diagnosis or treatment of human diseases or conditions mentioned in this section.

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.