HB 2059

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One thing that is interesting about HB

2059 is that each profession will have a duty to report unprofessional conduct

to the board of either their own/ same professional colleagues or for

those under another board to their own board. This has come up specifically

because of some dangerous activity by one particular group and those who have

had to clean up the mess felt impeded to report. Now it will be mandated. This

is a double edged sword. If some language under 2059 is deleted I guess this

could be used :

‘(d) “Unprofessional conduct”

means conduct unbecoming a licensee or detrimental to the

best interests of the public, including conduct contrary to

recognized standards of ethics of

the licensee′s profession or conduct that endangers

the health, safety or welfare of a patient

or client.

(2) Unless state or federal laws relating to confidentiality

or the protection of health information

prohibit disclosure, a licensee who has reasonable cause to

believe that another

licensee has engaged in prohibited or unprofessional conduct

shall report the conduct to the

board responsible for the licensee who is believed to have

engaged in the conduct. The reporting

licensee shall report the conduct without undue delay, but in

no event later than 10

working

days after the reporting licensee learns of the conduct.

s. fuchs dc

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Subject: HB 2059

Dear

Senator Monnes- and Representative s,

My name is Minga Guerrero DC. I

am a constituent in your district. I currently serve on the Oregon Board

of Chiropractic Examiners and was the past president for 4 years.

I've also served as the Oregon Delegate to the National Board of Chiropractic

Examiners helping to write and regulate national testing; and served as the

Oregon Delegate to the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards - helping to

regulate our profession globally. I have met with the FBI Medical Fraud Task

force as well as the Oregon National Insurance Crime Bureau. I've worked in

public protection for 6 yrs on the state board and for approximately 10 yrs

prior on various state board committees. This makes a total of 16 years in

public protection and state regulation of scope issues. I feel I have a very

good understanding of public protection as it concerns medical scope of

NMS and viscero-somatic conditions.

I'm very concerned with

the following language (below) in HB 2059.

Failing to provide standards of education as it relates to medical scope can

greatly endanger the public. I understand this is to be considered very soon by

the Oregon

legislature. Specifically, this language concerns me, because in order to know

exactly when to make an appropriate referral, a provider must first have

adequate DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS training. I would respectfully suggest that you

ask the PT lobby to divulge the full course content of both the DPT

and standard PT program. In order to protect the public, it would be

wise to ask for a full list of courses that can be discussed as it relates

to comparable medical providers with similar scope. I suggest that this

discussion be taken up by the newly formed committee that's assisting with

inter-professional scope issues. It would seem that a more thorough and

complete investigation of this is in order in light of public protection

implications that could occur in the myriad of NMS/Viscero-somatic complaints.

Life threatening errors can easily be made in this arena when educational

standards are deficient. Comparisons should be made with existing professions

that currently have differential diagnosis and referral scope in their license.

Thank you for your time,

Minga Guerrero DC

Oregon Board of Chiropractic

Examiners * 3218 Pringle

Road SE, Ste 150 * Salem, OR 97302-5816

[(7) A

physical therapist shall refer a patient to an appropriate health care

practitioner if the

physical

therapist has reasonable cause to believe symptoms or conditions are present

that require

services

beyond the scope of practice of a physical therapist or when physical therapy is

contraindicated.]

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