Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-6b02

  • Health care facility: means a facility other than a medical care facility providing care for persons who are ill or infirm and includes adult care homes as such term is defined by Kan. See Kansas Statutes 65-6b01
  • Medical care facility: means the same as the meaning ascribed thereto in Kan. See Kansas Statutes 65-6b01
  • Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery by the state board of healing arts. See Kansas Statutes 65-6b01
  • Written informed request: means the request for the prescription of amygdalin (laetrile) and the form for such request established under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 65-6b01

No medical care facility or other health care facility shall interfere with the physician-patient relationship by restricting or prohibiting the use of amygdalin (laetrile) as an adjunct to recognized, customary or accepted modes of therapy or by itself in the treatment of any malignancy, disease, illness or physical condition when amygdalin (laetrile) is prescribed or administered by a physician, and the patient has signed the written informed request therefor substantially as set forth in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 65-6b05.