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News Release — January 28, 2003
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
January 28, 2003
Medical Board Accusation Leads to Surrender of
Los Angeles Physician's Medical License
SACRAMENTO—Facing a formal Accusation of wrongdoing by the Medical Board of California, Los Angeles physician Andrew J. Connick Doran, M.D. has been ordered to surrender his license to practice medicine. The stipulated surrender of his medical license was ordered on January 13, 2003 and becomes effective on February 12, 2003.
The Medical Board accused Doran of being negligent in his care and treatment of nine patients. He violated Business and Professions Code section 2234 (unprofessional conduct) in that he engaged in extreme departures from the standard of practice, both singularly and collectively, by failing to: perform or document an adequate medical history and examination to support the diagnosis, treatment and prescribed medications; demonstrate an indication for an EKG; demonstrate an indication for motor and sensory nerve conduction studies; demonstrate an indication for exhaustive blood chemistry studies; investigate patient complaint of low back pain to the point of diagnosis because he did not order any x-rays, and many other departures. Doran also violated Business and Professions Code section 725 (excessive prescribing/treatment) for failing to render a diagnosis, based on test results, that justified the prescription of Tylenol #3 with Codeine, Tylenol #4 with Codeine, and VC cough syrup and then failing to undertake an ongoing assessment of patient's psycho-social issues as is required by the prescription of medications containing Codeine, which have addictive potential.
Doran signed a Stipulated Surrender of License and waived his rights to a hearing. After the Medical Board accepts the surrender of his license on February 12, 2003, Doran will lose all rights and privileges to practice as a physician and surgeon in the State of California.
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The mission of the Medical Board of California is to protect healthcare consumers through proper licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons and certain affiliated healing arts professions, and through the vigorous, objective enforcement of the Medical Practice Act.
If you have a question or complaint about the healthcare you are receiving, the Board encourages you to visit its Web site www.medbd.ca.gov or for questions call the Consumer Information Line at (916) 263-2382, or with complaints call (800) 633-2322.
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