Doe v. Axelrod

By this CPLR article 78 proceeding, petitioner, a psychiatrist, challenges an order of the Commissioner of Health of the State of New York reversing the ruling of the Administrative Officer at a hearing of the New York Board for Professional Medical Conduct which struck the testimony of the complaining witnesses, petitioner’s former patients, who, in accordance with explicit statutory provisions prohibiting disclosure of such information, refused to disclose whether they had ever complained to the Board about petitioner’s treatment of them. We agree with the court from which this appeal is…