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Re: LEGAL I guess patients ARE 'consumers' -- at least in Kansas From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Tue Feb 13 10:24:09 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Gyn: ACS-US, HR HPV positive pap" Previous message: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: Medical school enrollment projected to increase by 17 percent" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "LEGAL I guess patients ARE "consumers" -- at least in Kansas" Next in thread: Dean Huffman .: "Re: LEGAL I guess patients ARE "consumers" -- at least in Kansas" Who's the Head of the Healing Art's Board? Dr. Strange? Theodoric of York? Art At Tue, 13 Feb 2007, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > > _Physicians Are Not Exempt from Consumer Protection Act_ >(http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070209/scokan_physicians.html?.v=1) The KS Supreme Court ruled >that the KS Consumer Protection Act can apply to physicians' conduct when >treating patients. According to the court, a physician is, "in the ordinary >course of business, a seller or supplier of services." The KS Board of Healing >Arts chief counsel said that in many instances, physicians who violate the >consumer protection act could also face sanctions from the healing arts board. >Carl Manning, Yahoo News 02/12/2007 >Read Article: _Yahoo News_ >(http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070209/scokan_physicians.html?.v=1) > >Joe P. > >"The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created >nor destroyed ... unless it meets Chuck Norris." -- art fougner, md "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton Next message: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Gyn: ACS-US, HR HPV positive pap" Previous message: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Re: Medical school enrollment projected to increase by 17 percent" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "LEGAL I guess patients ARE "consumers" -- at least in Kansas" Next in thread: Dean Huffman .: "Re: LEGAL I guess patients ARE "consumers" -- at least in Kansas"

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