"Health care provider" means a person, corporation, organization, facility or institution licensed or certified by this state to provide health care or professional services as a doctor of medicine, hospital, outpatient health care facility, doctor of osteopathy, chiropractor, podiatrist, nurse anesthetist or physician's assistant;
Ealy v. Sheppeck, 100 N.M. 250, 669 P.2d 259 (Ct. App. 1983). (The statute bars an action against a radiologist for failure to diagnose cancer of the kidney where the action was brought more than three years after the defendant misread a urogram. The intermittent services he rendered the plaintiff thereafter by way of interpretation of later x-rays of the lungs, etc., did not constitute "continuous treatment" so as to toll the statute.)
Garcia v. Presbyterian Hosp. Ctr., 92 N.M. 652, 593 P.2d 487 (Ct. App. 1979). (The statute does not bar an action by a patient who has undergone two operations for prostatic cancer and is then subjected to a third surgery where the hospital fails to disclose, either to him or to his attorney, that its employees had been negligent in treating the plaintiff. The statute is tolled during the time the hospital conceals the reason for the third operation which, in fact, was due to the loss of a catheter through the negligence of a hospital employee.)