State Board of Medical Examiners v. Harrison

Citations

• 92 Wash. 577
• 159 P. 769
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 799

Syllabus

<p>Physicians and Surgeons — Regulation—Revocation of License —Powers of Legislature — Conclusive Evidence — Statutes. The legislature, in making it the duty of the state board of medical examiners to revoke a practitioner’s license for unprofessional conduct, under Rem. & Bal. Code, § 8397, had the power to declare (by Id., § 8397%) that the conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude shall be conclusive evidence of unprofessional conduct, whether the same be a rule of law or a rule of evidence; hence the statute is not unconstitutional and the board could not go back of the record of conviction.</p> <p>Same — Revocation of License — Statutes—Validity. The term “moral turpitude” in such act is not so vague and uncertain as to render the law unconstitutional.</p> <p>Same. Statutes regulating the practice of medicine are within the police power of the state and not violative of any constitutional provision.</p>