Grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure: False application for license; misrepresenting disease or injury for personal gain; false advertising; practicing under another name; signing blank prescription form; influencing patient to engage in sexual activity; discouraging second opinion; terminating care without adequate notice. The following acts, among others, constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying the issuance of a license:
1. Willfully making a false or fraudulent statement or submitting a forged or false document in applying for a license to practice homeopathic medicine.
2. Willfully representing with the purpose of obtaining compensation or other advantages for himself or for any other person that a manifestly incurable disease or injury or other manifestly incurable condition can be permanently cured.
3. Obtaining, maintaining or renewing, or attempting to obtain, maintain or renew a license to practice homeopathic medicine by bribery, fraud or misrepresentation or by any false, misleading, inaccurate or incomplete statement.
4. Advertising the practice of homeopathic medicine in a false, deceptive or misleading manner.
5. Practicing or attempting to practice homeopathic medicine under a name other than the name under which he is licensed.
6. Signing a blank prescription form.
7. Influencing a patient in order to engage in sexual activity with the patient or another person.
8. Attempting directly or indirectly, by way of intimidation, coercion or deception, to obtain or retain a patient or to discourage a patient from obtaining a second opinion.
9. Terminating the medical care of a patient without giving adequate notice or making other arrangements for the continued care of the patient.
Last modified: February 27, 2006