Legal Opinion

Osteopathy in Hospitals

Pennsylvania Department of Justice

Decided June 14, 1926Published

1Opinion of the Court

Anderson, Dep. Att’y-Gen.,

Your letter of June 4, 1926, enclosing a letter from Dr. T. S. Fuller, of Corry, Pennsylvania, with respect to a hospital which informed him that a part-pay patient would have to be attended by a medical doctor who was on service, and which also refused to allow him to treat a private-room patient, has been received and fully considered. The questions which Dr. Fuller raises through you are at once serious and delicate. By successive pieces of legislation, osteopathic physicians and surgeons have come to be recognized as a complete, distinct and separate school of…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Gable v. Sisters of St. FrancisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
  2. Daly's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  3. City of Philadelphia v. Penna. HospitalSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890

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