2005 Minnesota Statutes

     148.572 Advice to seek diagnosis and treatment. 

    Whether or not topical ocular drugs have been used, if any 
 licensed optometrist is informed by a patient or determines from 
 examining a patient, using judgment and that degree of skill, 
 care, knowledge and attention ordinarily possessed and exercised 
 by optometrists in good standing under like circumstances, that 
 there are present in that patient signs or symptoms which may be 
 evidence of disease that requires treatment that is beyond the 
 practice of optometry permitted by law, then the licensed 
 optometrist shall (1) promptly advise that patient to seek 
 evaluation by an appropriate licensed physician for diagnosis 
 and possible treatment and (2) not attempt to treat such 
 condition by the use of drugs or any other means.  

    HIST: 1982 c 388 s 2; 1993 c 121 s 4