Haberman v. Sobol

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this court pursuant to Education Law § 6510-a [4]) to review a determination of respondent which suspended petitioner’s license to practice medicine in New York.

Petitioner is a physician licensed to practice medicine in New York and New Jersey. It is undisputed that from 1978 to 1982 petitioner, a doctor of osteopathy, used the degree designation "M.D.” after his name rather than "D.O.”. Petitioner’s use of the "M.D.” designation resulted in disciplinary charges in New Jersey based on this misrepresentation. In January 1985, the New Jersey…