One of the cases described by Kentucky board counsel Cheryl Lalonde was decided August 25, 2009 by the Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District. The ruling (Louis H. Watson v. The Superior Court of Sacramento County, Medical Board of California) involved a surgeon who had several DUI violations…
The Arizona State Board of Respiratory Care Examiners won plaudits from the state Auditor General this year for some elements of its performance. It followed rules on issuing licenses and issued most in a timely manner. But the watchdog agency cited one area where the board needs work: ensuring licensees’…
State agency websites don’t strive for superior turning ability, extra shine, or spin cycle speed. But anyone who’s consulted Consumer Reports to compare vacuum cleaners or hybrid cars will recognize the red- and black-dotted rating system the publisher adopted in its recent ratings of state medical board websites. A Survey…
An appellate court in California overturned a license revocation issued to a doctor who had accepted several thousand dollars in disability insurance while working for another employer (Pirouzian v. Superior Court; Medical Board of California, Real Party in Interest). In its June 29, 2016, decision, the court cited several mitigating…
A company did not engage in the unlicensed practice of engineering when it used a GPS device, or geographic positioning system, to locate and map the location of equipment of a local utility, a Pennsylvania court held May 24, 2016 (Southeastern Reprographics v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs). The…
California’s statutory ban on the practice of sexual orientation conversion therapy by licensed mental health provider has withstood another set of legal arguments made by opponents of the ban, who continue to claim that the ban violates First Amendment religious and free speech rights (Welch v. Brown). Welch is the…
The Oregon Court of Appeals, in an August 3, 2016, decision, granted a hearing to resolve a factual dispute in the case of a physician whose license was revoked by default after he failed to arrive for the beginning of his hearing, in the mistaken belief he could skip the…
A pharmacist who sought reinstatement of her license, and was denied, lost her appeal August 25. The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that she had not properly demonstrated her rehabilitation and ability to practice pharmacy with reasonable skill (Markowitz v. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, State Board of Pharmacy)….
The California Medical Board, through Executive Director Kimberly Kirchmeyer, investigated Dr. Geoffrey Phillips, a licensed psychiatrist, based on an allegation that he had a sexual relationship with one of his patients, A.M. After her therapy with Dr. Phillips ended, A.M. divorced her husband, S.M. S.M. then filed a complaint with…
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