2005 Minnesota Statutes - 158.17 — Duties of medical director.

     158.17 Duties of medical director.  


    The medical director shall supervise and direct the medical 
 care and treatment of all patients in the Psychopathic 
 Department; carry on and direct investigations into the nature, 
 causes, and cure of abnormal mental conditions; ask for, and be 
 entitled to receive, the cooperation of all experts in the 
 employ of the University of Minnesota, such as physicians, 
 surgeons, pathologists, psychologists, sociologists, and X-ray 
 specialists; seek to bring about systematic cooperation between 
 the Psychopathic Department and all state institutions under the 
 jurisdiction of the commissioner of human services, so far as 
 these institutions may have in their custody defective persons 
 or persons afflicted or supposed to be afflicted with any other 
 abnormal mental condition; visit from time to time these 
 institutions upon request of the respective superintendents 
 thereof or upon request of the commissioner of human services; 
 and may advise the medical officers of these institutions, or 
 the commissioner of human services, or any court, on request, in 
 subjects relating to abnormal mental conditions.  


    HIST: (4595) 1923 c 385 s 5; 1953 c 593 s 2; 1984 c 654 art 5 
 s 58