[§460-1.3]  Practice of osteopathy defined.  Osteopathic medicine and surgery is a separate, complete, and independent school of medicine and surgery utilizing full methods of diagnosis and treatment in physical and mental health and disease, including the prescribing and administration of drugs and biologicals of all kinds, operative surgery, obstetrics, radiological, and other electromagnetic emissions, and placing special emphasis on the interrelation of the neuro- musculoskeletal system to all other body systems, and the amelioration of disturbed structure-function relationships by the clinical application of the osteopathic diagnostic and therapeutic skills for the maintenance of health and treatment of disease. [L 1985, c 197, §15]