Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 67 > Part 6 - Impaired Physician

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Board: means the Physicians Licensing Board created in Section 58-67-201. See Utah Code 58-67-102
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Physician: means both physicians and surgeons licensed under Section 58-67-301, Utah Medical Practice Act, and osteopathic physicians and surgeons licensed under Section 58-68-301, Utah Osteopathic Medical Practice Act. See Utah Code 58-67-102
• Practice of medicine: means :

  (i)

  to diagnose, treat, correct, administer anesthesia, or prescribe for any human disease, ailment, injury, infirmity, deformity, pain or other condition, physical or mental, real or imaginary, including to perform cosmetic medical procedures, or to attempt to do so, by any means or instrumentality, and by an individual in Utah or outside the state upon or for any human within the state;

  (ii)	when a person not licensed as a physician directs a licensee under this chapter to withhold or alter the health care services that the licensee has ordered;

  (iii)

  to maintain an office or place of business for the purpose of doing any of the acts described in Subsection (19)(a)(i) or (ii) whether or not for compensation; or

  (iv)

  to use, in the conduct of any occupation or profession pertaining to the diagnosis or treatment of human diseases or conditions in any printed material, stationery, letterhead, envelopes, signs, or advertisements, the designation "doctor" "doctor of medicine" "physician" "surgeon" "physician and surgeon" "Dr. See Utah Code 58-67-102 Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5