Ramirez v. Board of Registration in Medicine

Marshall, CJ.

We consider in this case whether a physician who entered into a consensual discipline order in another jurisdiction, pursuant to which he did not admit to any wrongdoing, but did agree not to contest certain factual allegations and further agreed that those allegations constitute grounds for discipline, is subject to reciprocal discipline in Massachusetts. See 243 Code Mass. Regs. § 1.03 (5) (a) (12) (1993). We conclude that he is.

1. Background. Randolph Ramirez is a physician licensed to *480practice medicine in the Commonwealth and in the States of Connecticut and Montana. In…