Oregon Revised Statutes Labor and Employment; Unlawful Discrimination § 655.505

(1) “Attending practitioner” means Department of Corrections or Oregon Youth Authority medical staff, or specialists assisting Department of Corrections or Oregon Youth Authority medical staff, while the inmate is committed to the physical and legal custody of the Department of Corrections. At all other times, “attending practitioner” means a person licensed in Oregon or another state as a medical doctor, doctor of osteopathy, doctor of optometry, doctor of dentistry or nurse practitioner who provides services within the scope of the license.

(2) “Authorized work or occupational training assignment” means the work assignment of an inmate:

(3) “Department” means the Oregon Department of Administrative Services.

(4) “Injury” means:

(5) “Inmate” means a person committed to the physical and legal custody of the Department of Corrections.

(6) “Medical services” means reasonable and necessary services prescribed by an attending practitioner for conditions resulting from injury for a period that the nature of the injury or the process of recovery requires. “Medical services” includes medical, surgical, hospital, nursing, ambulance and other related services, drugs, medicine, crutches and prosthetic appliances, braces and supports and, when necessary, physical restorative services.

(7) “Medically stationary” means that no further material improvement would reasonably be expected from medical treatment or the passage of time.

(8) The terms “beneficiary,” “child” and “dependent” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 656.005.