§ 63-6-240. Remedial Action Against Persons Licensed to Practice Medicine Who Are Required to Register as a Sexual Offender or Violent Sexual Offender in Order to Assure Safety
The general assembly finds that a person who is licensed to practice medicine in this state and who is required to register with the Tennessee bureau of investigation (TBI) as a sexual offender or violent sexual offender is injurious to the public safety, health and welfare as well as the public’s perception of and confidence […]
§ 63-6-241. Physical Presence of Physician Required for Abortion
Notwithstanding § 63-6-209(b) or any other provision of this chapter, no physician licensed under this chapter or chapter 9 of this title shall perform or attempt to perform any abortion, including a medically induced abortion, or shall prescribe any drug or device intended to cause a medical abortion, except in the physical presence of the […]
§ 63-6-242. Employee or Contractor’s Unauthorized Use of Medical Doctor’s Dea Registration Number to Write Prescriptions
Any medical doctor licensed pursuant to this chapter who has reason to believe that an employee or contractor of the doctor or the doctor’s firm, partnership or corporation has used the doctor’s federal drug enforcement administration (DEA) registration number without authorization to write prescriptions may make a report to a law enforcement agency. Any medical […]
§ 63-6-243. Hormone Replacement Therapy
“Hormone replacement therapy clinic” or “hormone therapy clinic” means a medical office in which the clinicians are primarily engaged in hormone replacement or supplementation therapy or a medical office which holds itself out to the public as being primarily or substantially engaged in hormone replacement therapy. For the purposes of this definition, “primarily engaged” means […]
§ 63-6-244. Interventional Pain Management
A physician licensed pursuant to this chapter may only practice interventional pain management if the licensee is either: Board certified through the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) or the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS)/American Association of Physician Specialists (AAPS) in one of the following medical specialties: Anesthesiology; Neurological surgery; Orthopedic surgery; Physical medicine […]
§ 63-6-245. Notice to Patients of Determination That Patient Has Dense or Extremely Dense Breasts
As used in this section, “physician” means an individual authorized by this chapter to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery pursuant to chapter 9 of this title. If a physician has determined, after a mammogram is performed, that a patient has dense breasts or extremely dense breasts, based on the breast imaging […]
§ 63-6-246. Maintenance of Licensure or Certification Not Required
As used in this section: “Continuing medical education” means continued postgraduate medical education required by the board of medical examiners intended to provide medical professionals with knowledge of new developments or reinforcement of previously learned information in their field; “Maintenance of certification” means any process requiring periodic recertification examinations or other activities to maintain specialty […]
§ 63-6-238. Notice to Patients of Departure
Psychiatrists are not required to notify patients that were treated by them at community mental health centers, as defined in § 33-1-101, of their departure from such community mental health centers. Patient records shall remain with the community mental health centers. The transfer of patients’ records shall be in compliance with standards set by state […]
§ 63-6-229. Consent to Medical Treatment by a Minor
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in the absence or unavailability of a spouse, any minor is authorized and empowered to consent for such minor’s child, either orally or otherwise, to any surgical or medical treatment or procedures not prohibited by law that may be suggested, recommended, prescribed or directed by a […]
§ 63-6-230. Inactive Licenses to Perform Pro Bono Services
The board of medical examiners shall establish by rule an inactive license category that allows physicians to perform services without compensation only for those persons receiving services from organizations that have received a determination of exemption under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)). Such inactive license category shall not authorize […]