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2010 Georgia Code
TITLE 43 - PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 34 - PHYSICIANS, ACUPUNCTURE, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, CANCER AND GLAUCOMA TREATMENT, RESPIRATORY CARE, CLINICAL PERFUSIONISTS, AND ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PRACTICE
ARTICLE 4 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
§ 43-34-101 - Legislative purpose
O.C.G.A. 43-34-101 (2010)43-34-101. Legislative purpose
(a) To alleviate the growing shortage and geographic maldistribution of health care services in this state, the General Assembly intends, by this article, to recognize physician assistants and their role in addressing this growing health care shortage.
(b) This article is intended to encourage the more effective utilization of the skills of physicians by enabling them to delegate health care tasks to such assistants where such delegation is consistent with the patient's health and welfare.
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