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News Release — March 16, 2004
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
March 16, 2004
Medical Board Revokes License
of Irvine Physician
SACRAMENTO—In a decision effective March 15, 2004, the Medical Board revoked the license of an Orange County physician, Robert Leslie, M.D., and ordered him to pay $75,000 in cost recovery within 60 days.
Leslie is an Orange County physician, first licensed in 1958. Following a two-week hearing, Leslie was found guilty of: gross negligence in his care and treatment of two patients; repeated negligent acts; incompetence; engaging in repeated acts of dishonesty and through "widespread, repeated, and pervasive acts of negligence;" aiding and abetting the unlicenced practice of medicine by unlicenced individuals at two separate medical enterprises over a period of months; the issuance of false documents related to the practice of medicine; operating a medical clinic under a fictitious name without obtaining a fictitious name permit from the board; advertising a medical clinic under a fictitious name without obtaining a fictitious name permit; excessive prescription of diagnostic tests; violation of the Knox-Moscone Act; and engaging in fee splitting with a non-licensee.
Leslie had been previously disciplined by the Medical Board in March 1990 for conviction of substantially related crimes and for violation of state laws regulating dangerous drugs.
Leslie allowed his license to be used by two non-physicians to operate a number of medical offices, contrary to state law. The persons named in the Accusation were Sayed Mostafa Kamal El Sayed, who operated a facility called the Robert M.D. Clinic in Lawndale, and Kaled Ahmed, who operated a string of seven medical clinics in Huntington Park and Downtown Los Angeles which operated under the names of the Clinica Kholy, the Clinica Santa Maria, and the Clinica Leslie Medical Group.
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The mission of the Medical Board is to protect healthcare consumers through the proper licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons and certain allied healthcare 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 at 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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