A licensee who engages in unprofessional or immoral conduct is
subject to disciplinary action in accordance with section 506 of the act
(63 P. S.
§
625.506).
(1) Unprofessional conduct includes the following:
(i) Revealing personally identifiable facts
obtained as the result of a doctor-patient relationship without the prior consent of
the patient, except as authorized or required by law.
(ii) Performing a chiropractic service
incompetently or performing a chiropractic service which the licensee knows or has
reason to know that the licensee is not competent to perform.
(iii) Advertising a chiropractic practice in a
manner which is intended or has the tendency to deceive the public.
(iv) Knowingly permitting, aiding or abetting a
person who is not licensed to perform activities, requiring a license in health care
practice.
(v) Continuing to practice
chiropractic or to indicate the ability to practice chiropractic while one's license
is unregistered or inactive or is suspended or revoked.
(vi) Impersonating another health care
practitioner.
(vii) Offering,
undertaking or agreeing to cure or treat a disease by a secret method, procedure,
treatment or preparation or the treating of a human condition by a method, means or
procedure which the licensee refuses to divulge to the Board upon demand of the
Board.
(viii) Delegating a radiological
procedure to a person whom the chiropractor knows or has reason to know is not
qualified to perform the proce-dure, under section 522 of the act (
63 P. S. §
625.522) and §
5.62 (relating to auxiliary personnel
who may perform radiological procedures).
(ix) Failing to exercise direct supervision over
auxiliary personnel authorized to perform radiological procedures.
(x) Willfully engaging in sexual activity with a
patient within the scope of the chiropractor/patient relationship or harassing,
assaulting, abusing or intimidating a patient.
(xi) Abandoning a patient. Abandonment occurs when
a licensee withdraws services after a doctor-patient relationship has been
established, by failing to give notice to the patient of the licensee's intention to
withdraw in sufficient time to allow the patient to obtain necessary chiropractic
care.
(xii) Ordering excessive tests,
treatment or use of treatment and diagnostic facilities not reasonably warranted by
the condition of the patient.
(xiii)
Failure to include the word chiropractor, chiropractic, D.C. or a derivative thereof
in advertisements, letterhead, signs and other printed material.
(xiv) Practicing or advertising adjunctive
procedures without a certificate to use adjunctive procedures issued by the
Board.
(xv) Practicing or advertising
needle acupuncture, unless the licensee is licensed to do so by the State Board of
Medicine or the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine and acting in accordance with
the Acupuncture Licensure Act (63 P. S. §§ 1801-1806.1) and regulations of the State Board of
Medicine in §§
18.11-
18.18
(relating to licensure and practice of acupuncturists and practitioners of oriental
medicine) or regulations of the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine in §§
25.301-
25.308
(relating to registration and practice of acupuncturists).
