No physician or employer who enters into a collaboration agreement with a licensed physician assistant in accordance with and within the terms of any permission granted by the commission is considered as aiding and abetting an unlicensed person to practice medicine. The physician assistant shall retain responsibility for any act which constitutes the practice of medicine as defined in RCW 18.71.011 or the practice of osteopathic medicine and surgery as defined in RCW 18.57.001 when performed by the physician assistant.
RCW 18.71A.050
Physician's and employer's liability, responsibility of physician assistant.
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 93 Wash. 2d 117 - Washington State Nurses Ass'n v. Board of Medical Examiners (1980)
Most recently applied in Colton & Cheryl Behr v. Dr. Christopher G. Anderson (July 2021)
2024 c 62 s 6; 2020 c 80 s 7; 1994 sp.s. c 9 s 323; 1993 c 28 s 8; 1990 c 196 s 5; 1986 c 259 s 114; 1971 ex.s. c 30 s 5.
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Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.