Kearl v. Board of Medical Quality Assurance

Opinion

SPENCER, P. J.—

Introduction

Petitioner Sherman L. Kearl, M.D., appeals from a judgment denying his petition for a writ of mandate ordering respondent to set aside its decision to suspend petitioner’s medical license for one year, the suspension to be stayed during a two-year probation period. This decision was based on respondent’s findings petitioner was grossly negligent in his anesthesia of Janet Halverson, in that he failed to record her vital signs at five-minute intervals commencing with the start of anesthesia and he demonstrated incompetence in his anesthesia of Rosa Ortiz,…