In the management of such hospital, no discrimination shall be made against the practitioners of any recognized school of medicine; and each patient shall have the right to employ at the patient's expense any physician of the patient's choice; and any such physician, when so employed by the patient, shall have exclusive charge of the care and treatment of the patient; and attending nurses shall be subject to the direction of such physician.
[S13, § 409-n; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 5364; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 347.18]
Referred to in § 347A.5
Applicable to hospitals payable from revenue, § 347A.5
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