(1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 438.010 to 438.510, a clinical laboratory shall examine specimens only at the request of a physician, dentist, or other person authorized by law to use the findings of laboratory examinations.
(2) A person may not report the result of any test, examination, or analysis of a specimen submitted for evidence of human disease except to:
(a) The patient; and
(b) A physician, dentist, their agents, or other person authorized by law to employ the results thereof in the conduct of a practice or in the fulfillment of official duties.
(3) Not sooner than seven days after receiving a request from a patient for the results of any test, examination or analysis of a specimen submitted by the patient, a clinical laboratory shall provide the results in writing to the patient. [1969 c.685 §21; 2001 c.104 §174; 2003 c.376 §1]
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