Exceptions.—This chapter does not affect practitioners of dentistry, nor include physicians or surgeons residing in other States called into consultation in a special case with a physician or surgeon residing in this State, nor does it affect in any way the laws in reference to the license tax (ib., s. 1,752) nor does it apply to midwives (ib., s. 1,753).
Fees.—To the board of examiners, before examination, $5 (ib., s. 1,747, as amended Act 1892, c. 70).
To the clerk of the court, for recording, same fee as for recording a deed (ib., s. 1,749).
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Examining Board.—The governor is required to appoint a State medical examining board of nine members, learned and skilled in the practice and theory of medicine and surgery (Act March 28th, 1890, s. 1).
The said board is required to hold meetings for examination on the first Tuesday of January and July in each year, alternately in western and eastern Washington at such places as the board may designate. The board may call special meetings when, in the opinion of a majority of the board, they are necessary. The board is required to keep a record of all applicants for a license, with their ages, the time spent in the study and practice of medicine and surgery, and the name and location of all institutions granting to such applicants degrees or certificates of lectures in medicine or surgery, and whether such applicant was rejected or licensed; and said register is prima facie evidence of all matters therein recorded (ib., s. 2).
Qualification.—Every person desiring to commence the practice of medicine or surgery, or either of them, in any of their or its branches, must make a written application to the board for a license, supported by an affidavit of the applicant, setting forth the actual time spent in the study of medicine and surgery, and when; whether such study was in an institution of learning and, if so, its name and location; if not in such institution, where and under whose tutorship such study was prosecuted, the time engaged in the actual practice, if at all, of medicine and surgery or either, and where, and the age of the applicant at the time of the application, such application and affidavit to be filed and preserved of record in the office of the secretary of the board. At the time and place designated by the board or at a regular meeting of the board, applicants must be examined in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, histology, materia medica, therapeutics, preventive medicines, the practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, diseases of women and children, of the nervous system, of the eye and ear, medical jurisprudence, and such other branches as the board deem advisable. The examination must be both scientific and practical, and of sufficient severity to test the candidate’s fitness to practise medicine and surgery, by written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, questions and answers, and the same are required to be filed and preserved of record in the said secretary’s office. After the examination, if it be satisfactory, the board shall grant a license, by the consent of not less than five members, except as hereinafter provided.
Refusal or Revocation.—The board may refuse or revoke a license for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, subject to the right of appeal (ib., s. 3).
“Unprofessional or dishonorable conduct” means: procuring or aiding or abetting in procuring a criminal abortion; or employing what are popularly known as cappers or steerers; or obtaining any fee on the assurance that a manifestly incurable disease can be permanently cured; or wilfully betraying a professional secret; or advertisements of medical business in which untruthful and improbable statements are made; or advertising any medicine or means whereby the monthly periods of women can be regulated, or the menses re-established if suppressed; or the conviction of any offence involving moral turpitude; or habitual intemperance (ib., s. 4).
In case of a refusal or a revocation of a license, the board is required to file a brief and concise statement of the grounds and reasons thereof in the office of its secretary, which, with the decision of the board in writing, shall remain of record in said office. Before a license can be revoked for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, a complaint of some person under oath must be filed in the office of the secretary of the board, charging the acts of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct and the facts complained against the accused in ordinary and concise language, and at least ten days prior to the hearing the board shall cause to be served upon the accused a written notice and a copy of such complaint containing a statement of the time and place of the hearing. The accused may appear at the hearing and defend in person or by counsel, and may have the sworn testimony of witnesses taken and present other evidence in his behalf, and the board may receive arguments of counsel (ib., s. 5).