California Probate Code
§ 4631
PROB § 4631 Effective Jan 1, 2000Div. 4.7 · Part 1 · Ch. 1
Statute text
View on leginfo.ca.gov“Primary physician” means a physician designated by a patient or the patient’s agent, conservator, or surrogate, to have primary responsibility for the patient’s health care or, in the absence of a designation or if the designated physician is not reasonably available or declines to act as primary physician, a physician who undertakes the responsibility.
Legislative history
Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.