Hutchinson v. COMPOSITE STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS

Benham, Justice.

Already licensed to practice medicine in Ohio and California, appellant made application for a license to practice in Georgia. Appellees refused appellant an unrestricted license, but offered to enter into a consent order placing restrictions on his license. In response to appellant’s demand for a hearing, appellees relied on the provision in OCGA § 43-34-38 that refusal of a license is not a contested case within the meaning of the Administrative Procedure Act, that notice and hearing within the meaning of the Act was not required, but that appellant was entitled by §…