Board of Physician Quality Assurance v. Banks

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to decide whether the Board of Physician Quality Assurance could reasonably conclude that a physician’s sexually harassing conduct towards co-employees, committed while the physician was on duty at the hospital and in working areas of the hospital, constitutes immoral or unprofessional conduct in the practice of medicine within the meaning of Maryland Code (1981, 1994 Repl.Vol.), § 14-404(a)(3) of the Health Occupations Article.

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From 1986 until 1991, Dr. Lester H. Banks worked at Carroll County General Hospital as a medical-surgical…