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91_HB0874
LRB9100485ACdvA
1 AN ACT to amend the Medical Practice Act of 1987 by
2 changing Section 2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Medical Practice Act of 1987 is amended
6 by changing Section 2 as follows:
7 (225 ILCS 60/2) (from Ch. 111, par. 4400-2)
8 Sec. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this Act, the
9 following definitions shall have the following meanings,
10 except where the context requires otherwise:
11 (1) 1. "Act" means the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
12 (2) 2. "Department" means the Department of Professional
13 Regulation.
14 (3) 3. "Director" means the Director of Professional
15 Regulation.
16 (4) 4. "Disciplinary Action" means revocation,
17 suspension, probation, supervision, practice modification,
18 reprimand, required education, fines or any other action
19 taken by the Department against a person holding a license.
20 (5) 5. "Disciplinary Board" means the Medical
21 Disciplinary Board.
22 (6) 6. "Final Determination" means the governing body's
23 final action taken under the procedure followed by a health
24 care institution, or professional association or society,
25 against any person licensed under the Act in accordance with
26 the bylaws or rules and regulations of such health care
27 institution, or professional association or society.
28 (7) 7. "Fund" means the Medical Disciplinary Fund.
29 (8) 8. "Impaired" means the inability to practice
30 medicine with reasonable skill and safety due to physical or
31 mental disabilities as evidenced by a written determination
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1 or written consent based on clinical evidence including
2 deterioration through the aging process or loss of motor
3 skill, or abuse of drugs or alcohol, of sufficient degree to
4 diminish a person's ability to deliver competent patient
5 care.
6 (9) 9. "Licensing Board" means the Medical Licensing
7 Board.
8 (10 10. "Physician" means a person licensed under the
9 Medical Practice Act to practice medicine in all of its
10 branches or a chiropractic physician licensed to treat human
11 ailments without the use of drugs and without operative
12 surgery.
13 (11) 11. "Professional Association" means an association
14 or society of persons licensed under this Act, and operating
15 within the State of Illinois, including but not limited to,
16 medical societies, osteopathic organizations, and
17 chiropractic organizations, but this term shall not be deemed
18 to include hospital medical staffs.
19 (12) 12. "Program of Care, Counseling, or Treatment"
20 means a written schedule of organized treatment, care,
21 counseling, activities, or education, satisfactory to the
22 Disciplinary Board, designed for the purpose of restoring an
23 impaired person to a condition whereby the impaired person
24 can practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety of a
25 sufficient degree to deliver competent patient care.
26 (13) "Surgery" means a field of practice that consists
27 of diagnosis or treatment of diseases, conditions, injury, or
28 deformity of human tissue by (a) mechanical means, the
29 application of heat or cold, cryotherapy, or sonic waves, or
30 (b) operative surgery which consists of any procedures
31 through which human tissue is cut, removed, burned, frozen,
32 vaporized, or destroyed by use of any mechanical means,
33 laser, energy, chemical process, radiation, or penetration of
34 tissue or body orifices, or (c) a procedure consistent with
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1 this definition that is determined to be surgery or operative
2 surgery by the Medical Licensing Board by rule. Nothing in
3 the definition shall be construed to prohibit procedures or
4 services authorized under the Illinois Dental Practice Act or
5 the Podiatric Medical Practice Act of 1987.
6 (Source: P.A. 85-1209; 85-1245; 85-1440.)
7 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8 becoming law.