| Misconduct Description for DOH Webpage: | The Hearing Committee sustained the charges finding the physician guilty of committing professional misconduct by having been disciplined by the Medical Board of the State of California, Department of Consumer Affairs for being unable to practice the profession of medicine safely due to mental disorder; gross negligence; repeated negligent actions; prescribing without medical indication; excessive prescribing and general unprofessional conduct in connection with the physician's involvement in a purported pill mill. Previously, on June 20, 2017, the physician's New York State medical license was summarily suspended by the New York State Commissioner of Health. |