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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".09" citation="COMAR 10.32.04.09" title_num="10" subtitle_num="32" chapter_num="04" heading="Psychiatrist's Responsibility to Patient not to be Limited by Assignment.">
  <text>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.</text>
</regulation>