[Previous] [Next]

§43A-5-306.


§43A-5-306.
   
   The application described in Section 5-305 of this title shall be
   accompanied by a certificate in duplicate signed by a licensed doctor
   of medicine or osteopathic physician who is duly licensed to practice
   his profession by the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and
   Supervision or the Oklahoma Board of Osteopathic Examiners and who is
   not related by blood or marriage to the person being examined or has
   any interest in his estate. This certificate may be substantially in
   the following form:
   
                          CERTIFICATE OF PHYSICIAN
                                      
   I do hereby certify that on the ____ day of ____, 19__, I examined
   ____ and I am of the opinion that said person is mentally ill, and for
   his/her own welfare ought to be admitted to ____ Hospital at ____,
   Oklahoma, as a patient therein.
   
   I further certify that I have explained to said person that if he/she
   is admitted to a state hospital for the mentally ill as a voluntary
   patient, the medical staff may find it necessary or desirable to give
   a course of treatment requiring an extended period of time, and that
   it is not the legislative policy of the state to authorize the
   expenditure of public funds for the commencement of an expensive
   treatment unless the patient desires to continue that treatment for
   the length of time that the attending physicians believe is likely to
   give adequate benefit to the patient; and I have also explained that
   it may become necessary to give treatment which may temporarily weaken
   the patient's system so that it would be injurious to his/her health
   to release him/her immediately upon his/her request; and that
   therefore the superintendent of the hospital has authority under the
   law to detain the patient in the hospital for as long as sixty days
   after said patient gives written notice to the superintendent of
   his/her desire to leave the hospital.
   
   I further certify that in my opinion said person has sufficient mental
   capacity to and does understand and comprehend the matters set out in
   the preceding paragraph.
   
   I do further certify that I am a licensed doctor of medicine duly
   licensed as such by the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and
   Supervision (or that I am an osteopathic physician duly licensed as
   such by the Oklahoma Board of Osteopathic Examiners) and that I am not
   related by blood or marriage to the person being examined and that I
   have no interest in his/her estate.
   
   ________________________________
   
   (Signature of doctor of medicine
   
   or osteopathic physician)
   

[Previous] [Next]