MAINE RULES ADDRESSING PHYSICIAN CONDUCT

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Title 32: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 48: BOARD OF LICENSURE IN MEDICINE (HEADING: PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, @197 (rpr))

Subchapter 2: LICENSURE (HEADING: PL 1993, c. 600, Pt. A, @203 (rpr))

§3282-A. Disciplinary sanctions

Paragraph 2:

2. Grounds for discipline. The board may suspend or revoke a license pursuant to Title 5, section 10004. The following are grounds for an action to refuse to issue, modify, restrict, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew the license of an individual licensed under this chapter:

A. The practice of fraud or deceit in obtaining a license under this chapter or in connection with service rendered within the scope of the license issued; [1983, c. 378, §53 (new).]

B. Habitual substance abuse that has resulted or is foreseeably likely to result in the licensee performing services in a manner that endangers the health or safety of patients; [1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §218 (amd).]

C. A professional diagnosis of a mental or physical condition that has resulted or may result in the licensee performing services in a manner that endangers the health or safety of patients; [1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §218 (amd).]

D. Aiding or abetting the practice of medicine by an individual who is not licensed under this chapter and who claims to be legally licensed; [1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §218 (amd).]

E. Incompetence in the practice for which the licensee is licensed. A licensee is considered incompetent in the practice if the licensee has:

(1) Engaged in conduct that evidences a lack of ability or fitness to discharge the duty owed by the licensee to a client or patient or the general public; or

(2) Engaged in conduct that evidences a lack of knowledge or inability to apply principles or skills to carry out the practice for which the licensee is licensed; [1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §218 (amd).]

F. Unprofessional conduct. A licensee is considered to have engaged in unprofessional conduct if the licensee violates a standard of professional behavior that has been established in the practice for which the licensee is licensed; [1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §218 (amd).]

G. Subject to the limitations of Title 5, chapter 341, conviction of a crime that involves dishonesty or false statement or relates directly to the practice for which the licensee is licensed, or conviction of a crime for which incarceration for one year or more may be imposed; [1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §218 (amd).]

H. A violation of this chapter or a rule adopted by the board; [1993, c. 600, Pt. A, §218 (amd).]

I. Engaging in false, misleading or deceptive advertising; [1983, c. 378, §53 (new).]

J. Prescribing narcotic or hypnotic or other drugs listed as controlled substances by the Drug Enforcement Administration for other than accepted therapeutic purposes; [1989, c. 291, §4 (amd).]

K. Failure to report to the secretary of the board a physician licensed under this chapter for addiction to alcohol or drugs or for mental illness in accordance with Title 24, section 2505, except when the impaired physician is or has been a patient of the licensee; [1997, c. 680, Pt. C, §6 (amd).]

L. Failure to comply with the requirements of Title 24, section 2905-A; or [1997, c. 680, Pt. C, §7 (amd).]

M. Revocation, suspension or restriction of a license to practice medicine or other disciplinary action; denial of an application for a license; or surrender of a license to practice medicine following the institution of disciplinary action by another state or a territory of the United States or a foreign country if the conduct resulting in the disciplinary or other action involving the license would, if committed in this State, constitute grounds for discipline under the laws or rules of this State. [1997, c. 680, Pt. C, §8 (new).]

[1997, c. 680, Pt. C, §§5-8 (amd).]