# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 32 — Board of Physicians

### Chapter 04 — Delegation of Duties by a Licensed Physician-Psychiatrist to a Psychiatrist's Assistant

#### Regulation .09 Psychiatrist's Responsibility to Patient not to be Limited by Assignment.

*COMAR 10.32.04.09*

When the Board approves a psychiatrist's assistant's duties and supervisory relationship with a psychiatrist, that approval does not relieve the psychiatrist from the primary responsibility for the care and treatment of the patient. Medical services rendered to a patient by a psychiatrist's assistant shall be, with respect to the obligation of the psychiatrist, the same as if those services had been rendered directly by the psychiatrist.