No person may practice or represent himself or herself as practicing medicine without first having a valid license to do so.
RCW 18.71.021
License required.
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Columbia Physical Therapy v. Bfoa (2010)
Most recently applied in 168 Wash. 2d 421 - Columbia Physical Therapy, Inc. v. Benton Franklin Orthopedic Associates, PLLC (March 2010)
1987 c 150 s 46.
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.