White v. Board of Medical Quality Assurance

Opinion

STANIFORTH, J.

Dr. Frances E. White (Dr. White) was charged by the Board of Medical Quality Assurance (Board) with unprofessional conduct in the acts of prescribing medicine to persons who were addicts and to persons representing themselves to be addicts. The Board claimed there was an absence of medical indication for prescriptions given by Dr. White. After an administrative hearing, a proposed decision was submitted to the Board but it refused to adopt the administrative law judge’s findings: instead it considered the record anew and issued its own decision. The Board revoked Dr.…