2010 Tennessee Code
Title 63 - Professions Of The Healing Arts
Chapter 6 - Medicine and Surgery
Part 11 - Intractable Pain Treatment
63-6-1102 - Part definitions.

63-6-1102. Part definitions.

For the purposes of this part:

     (1)  “Board” means the board of medical examiners.

     (2)  “Chemical dependency” means:

          (A)  The abuse of alcohol or a controlled substance;

          (B)  A pathological use of alcohol or a controlled substance that chronically impairs the applicant's ability to competently provide legal advice or services; or

          (C)  A physiological or physical dependence on alcohol or a controlled substance.

     (3)  “Intractable pain” means a pain state in which the cause of the pain cannot be removed or otherwise treated and, in which, in the generally accepted course of medical practice, no relief or cure of the cause of the pain is possible or none has been found after reasonable efforts.

     (4)  “Physician” means a physician licensee of the board of medical examiners or an osteopathic physician.

[Acts 2001, ch. 327, § 3.]