Medical Board v. Superior Court

Opinion

KOLKEY, J.

This appeal requires us to decide whether Business and Professions Code section 2305 1 —a more specific statute—impliedly repeals section 141—a more general one that covers the same subject. Section 2305, the more specific statute, mandates disciplinary action against a medical licensee based on out-of-state discipline that “would have been grounds for discipline in California,” whereas section 141, the more general statute, permits state licensing boards to impose discipline based on “a disciplinary action taken by another state.” 2

The trial court concluded that a physician…