Health Care & Hospital Law
May 30, 2023
Judge preserves suit by doctor who lost license after ‘Varsity Blues’
The petitioner, Dr. Gregory O. Colburn, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison in April 2022. He claims that the California Medical Board improperly disciplined him as a “convicted physician, who is not incarcerated for a felony” and “effectively ended his career” by revoking his license this year.
A San Francisco judge declined to throw out a lawsuit by a doctor who said his license was improperly revoked by the California Medical Board due to his guilty plea in the 2019 college admissions scandal.
The petitioner, Dr. Gregory O. Colburn, was sentenced to eight weeks in prison in April 2022. He claims that the board improperly disciplined him as a “convicted physician, who is not incarcerated for a felony” and “effectively ended his ...
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