Howson
Howson v. Board of Medical Examiners
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Strother, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment affirming on review an order of the Board of Medical Examiners by which the petitioner was suspended from practice in this state as a physician and surgeon for “unprofessional conduct”.
The accusation presented to the board was in two counts, the first alleging the violation of subdivision seventh (a) of section 14 of the Medical Practice Act, and the second charging a violation of subdivision eighth of the same section.
The act specifies minutely the training which a person shall have in various systems of treating human infirmities ■ in order to entitle him to a license to practice. Section 14 provides the procedure for the trial of licensees on charges of “unprofessional conduct”, and defines with particularity what acts shall constitute such conduct. One such act is described in subdivision seventh (a) as “employing directly or indirectly any suspended or unlicensed practitioner in the practice of any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted, or the aiding or abetting any unlicensed person to practice any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted”. Subdivision eighth denounces the use by the licensee of any other name than his…