HARRY HUGHES, Governor                              3623

(g) "Licensed physician" means, unless the context
requires otherwise, a physician, including a doctor of
osteopathy, who is licensed by the Board to practice
medicine.

(H) "PERFORM ACUPUNCTURE" MEANS TO STIMULATE A CERTAIN
POINT OR POINTS ON OR NEAR THE SURFACE OF THE HUMAN BODY BY
THE INSERTION OF NEEDLES TO PREVENT OR MODIFY THE PERCEPTION
OF PAIN OR TO NORMALIZE PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING
PAIN CONTROL, FOR THE TREATMENT OF AILMENTS OR CONDITIONS OF
THE BODY.

[(h)] (I) "Physician" means an individual who
practices medicine.

[(i)] (J) (1) "Practice medicine" means to engage,
with or without compensation, in medical:

(i) Diagnosis;

(ii) Healing;

(iii) Treatment; or

(iv) Surgery.

(2)  "Practice medicine" includes doing,
undertaking, professing to do, and attempting any of the
following:

(i) Diagnosing, healing, treating,
preventing, prescribing for, or removing any physical,
mental, or emotional ailment or supposed ailment of an
individual:

1.  By physical, mental, emotional,
or other process that is exercised or invoked by the
practitioner, the patient, or both; or

2.  By appliance, test, drug,
operation, or treatment;

(ii) Ending of a human pregnancy; and

(iii) Performing acupuncture.

(3)  "Practice medicine" does not include:

(i) Selling any nonprescription drug or
medicine;

(ii) Practicing as an optician; or

(iii) Performing a massage or other
manipulation by hand, but by no other means.