Colorado Code § 12-240-122

Prescriptions - requirement to advise patients
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(1) A physician or
physician assistant licensed under this article 240 may advise the physician's or the physician
assistant's patients of their option to have the symptom or purpose for which a prescription is
being issued included on the prescription order.
(2) A physician's or a physician assistant's failure to advise a patient under subsection (1)
of this section shall not be grounds for any disciplinary action against the physician's or the
physician assistant's professional license issued under this article 240. Failure to advise a patient
pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall not be grounds for any civil action against a
physician or physician assistant in a negligence or tort action, nor shall the failure be evidence in
any civil action against a physician or a physician assistant.

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