Kansas State Board of Healing Arts v. Acker

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Holmes, J.:

This appeal by Stevens B. Acker, M.D., of Wichita, from a district court decision upholding a decision of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (Board) to suspend appellant’s license to practice medicine for two years culminates nearly ten years of controversy between Dr. Acker on one hand and Wesley Medical Center of Wichita (Wesley), the Medical Society of Sedgwick County (Society) and the Board on the other.

Dr. Acker is a graduate of the Kansas University School of Medicine and has been operating a general or family practice in Wichita…