1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, "physician" means a person who engages in the practice of medicine, including osteopathy and homeopathy.
2. The terms "physician," "osteopathic physician," "homeopathic physician," "chiropractic physician" and "podiatric physician" are used in chapters 630, 630A, 633, 634 and 635 of NRS in the limited senses prescribed by those chapters respectively.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 954; A 1983, 1492; 1985, 221; 1995, 1071)