Summary This case involves a physician who voluntarily surrendered their New York medical license following disciplinary action by the California Medical Board. The California Board had revoked the physician’s license (stayed) and placed them on five years’ probation with significant restrictions, including prohibition from emergency medicine practice and requirements for remedial education. The physician was …
Summary This case involves a physician who entered into a consent agreement following charges of negligence in the emergency department care of five patients between 2002 and 2008. The physician pleaded no contest to charges involving two of the five patients. The resolution included a 36-month suspension, permanent restriction from emergency and urgent care practice, …
Summary This case involves a physician who voluntarily surrendered their medical license following charges stemming from disciplinary actions taken by medical boards in Maine and Washington. The Maine Board found the physician had engaged in unprofessional conduct by inappropriately prescribing controlled substances, including prescribing Marinol to a patient’s significant other, “out to yourself because your …
Summary This case involves a Registered Physician Assistant (R.P.A.) who entered into a consent agreement following charges of fraudulent practice for inappropriately issuing prescriptions for controlled substances for herself. The practitioner did not contest the charges and agreed to a two-year stayed suspension followed by three years of probation. The case demonstrates the Board’s oversight …
Summary This case involves a physician who voluntarily surrendered their medical license in New York following disciplinary action by the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine. The Pennsylvania Board had publicly reprimanded the physician for making inappropriate sexual advances to a patient, requiring sexual boundaries training and imposing practice restrictions. Rather than contesting charges that this conduct …
Summary This case involves a physician who entered into a consent agreement to surrender their medical license following charges of prescribing medications inappropriately to multiple patients during 2007-2008. Rather than contesting the charges through a hearing, the physician agreed not to contest the negligence charges and voluntarily surrendered their license. The physician’s name was to …
Summary This case involves an emergency department physician who was charged with negligence and incompetence in the care of five patients between 2007 and 2010. The physician entered into a consent agreement, pleading no contest to negligence charges, while the incompetence charges were resolved. The case resulted in a three-year stay suspension with three years …
Summary This case involves a physician who voluntarily surrendered their medical license after being charged with fraudulent billing practices and convicted of grand larceny. The physician admitted to billing for medical services not rendered over two years, resulting in the wrongful obtaining of over $52,000 from insurance funds. The case was resolved through a negotiated …
Summary This case involves a physician who was subject to disciplinary action by the New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct following criminal convictions for sexual offenses. After an interim suspension in 2008, the physician’s medical license was ultimately revoked in 2010 following a hearing where they did not appear. The case demonstrates the …
Summary This case involved a urologist who was found guilty of professional misconduct for failing to maintain accurate medical records. The physician copied vital signs, temperature, weight, and pupil evaluation results from a patient’s chart rather than conducting proper examinations during visits in October and November 2008. The doctor was censured and reprimanded, received a …
