Legal Opinion
Olmstead v. Department of Health
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided August 29, 1991No. 25258-5-IPublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, J.
Stephen F. Olmstead, M.D., appeals the decision of the Washington Medical Disciplinary Board (the Board) to suspend his license to practice medicine. We reverse.
Dr. Olmstead is a skilled and respected cardiologist. In 1987 he began to use morphine, which he obtained at the University of Washington Medical Center by exchanging tubexes containing saline for those containing morphine left over at the end of a procedure. A tubex is a syringe with a needle attached to a glass cylinder. When his use of morphine was discovered, Dr. Olmstead signed a statement in September 1987 admitting that he had…
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