T.E. v. State Med. Bd.

Citations

• 2022 Ohio 1471

Syllabus

R.C. 4731.22(B)(19), which permits the state medical board to \limit\ a doctor's medical license upon a snowing of inability to practice, authorizes the board to restrict a doctor from engaging in certain procedures even while finding the doctor able to practice medicine in other respects. Trial court did not err in upholding a board determination that was based in part on testimony by a neurological expert who lacked a detailed understanding of the invasive cardiac procedures the licensee wished to perform. Antidiscrimination law does not prohibit the board from acting to protect patient safety by restricting impaired doctor from performing invasive procedures. And the trial court did not err in failing to find that the doctor and the board had agreed as to what the limitations to doctor's practice should be, so as to permit purely voluntary constraints. Assignments of error overruled judgment upholding board order affirmed.