{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-34-101","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 43-34-101","heading":"Legislative purpose.","body":"(a) To alleviate the growing shortage and geographic maldistribution of health care services in this state, the General Assembly intends, by this article, to recognize physician assistants and their role in addressing this growing health care shortage.\n(b) This article is intended to encourage the more effective utilization of the skills of physicians by enabling them to delegate health care tasks to such assistants where such delegation is consistent with the patient’s health and welfare.","path":["TITLE 43 Professions And Businesses","CHAPTER 34 Physicians, Acupuncture, Physician Assistants, Cancer and Glaucoma Treatment, Respiratory Care, Clinical Perfusionists, and Orthotics and Prosthetics Practice","Article 4 Physician Assistants"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.43.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"7e01ae98d1ee42055b60ea502cea30c94345d40355cae963b0d369f05456c860","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-34-100","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-34-102"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}