14-612. Same; physicians; rights of patients.
14-612
14-612. Same; physicians; rights of patients.
In the management of such hospital no discrimination shall be made
against practitioners of any school of medicine or healing recognized by
the laws of Kansas, and all such legal practitioners shall have equal
privileges in treating patients in said hospital. The patient shall have
the absolute right to employ, at his or her own expense, his or her own
physician, and when acting for any patient in such hospital the physician
employed by such patient shall have exclusive charge of the care and
treatment of such patient, and nurses therein shall, as to such patient, be
subject to the directions of such physician, subject always to such general
rules and regulations as shall be established by the board of trustees
under the provisions of this act.
History: L. 1917, ch. 104, § 11; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 14-612.