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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61450</law_id><section_number>54.1-2962.2</section_number><catch_line>Physician-patient relationship; effect of certain emergency department treatment</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="6">General Standards of Practice</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Any physician-patient relationship that may be created by virtue of an on-call physician or his agent evaluating or treating a patient in the emergency department of a corporation, facility or institution licensed or owned or operated by the Commonwealth to provide health care shall be deemed terminated without further notice upon the discharge of the patient from the emergency department or if the patient is admitted to the corporation, facility or institution, his discharge therefrom, and after completion of follow-up as prescribed by the physician, unless the physician and the patient affirmatively elect to continue the physician-patient relationship. <a id="paragraph-224473" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2962.2/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing in this section shall relieve a physician of his post-discharge duties required to satisfy the standard of care pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Standard of care in proceeding before medical malpractice review panel; expert testimony; determination of standard in action for damages" href="/8.01-581.20/">8.01-581.20</a>. <a id="paragraph-224474" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2962.2/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2004, c. 878.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
