Levin v. Board of Medical Examiners

TYLER, P. J.

Petition for mandate to compel respondents, the Board of Medical Examiners, to issue to petitioner a license entitling him to practice medicine and surgery in the state of California.

Petitioner alleges that he is a duly licensed and practicing physician and surgeon of the state of Michigan, where he was licensed to practice medicine on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1907, after fully complying with all of the requirements of the Board of Medical Examiners of that state.

That he practiced medicine continuously in the state of Michigan from the date of the issuance of his license up to' and including the month of July, 1924, except for a period of approximately one year, at which time he was a resident physician in a hospital in the city of Denver, state of Colorado.

It further alleges that petitioner has presented satisfactory credentials concerning his practice to the Board, which Board acknowledges are sufficient to establish the fact that petitioner is of good moral character and that he has had

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no charges preferred against him nor controversies during his practice in relation to the same; that petitioner is a graduate of the Detroit College of Medicine of the class of 1907, at which time such institution was a member of the Association of the American Medical Colleges, and has always been rated “Class A” by the American Medical Association, and that such college fully complied with the standards set by law of the state of California in 1907, and ever since has complied with such standards.

It is then recited that in accordance with section 13 of the Medical Practice Act of the state of California (Stats 1913, p. 730), the petitioner applied to the Board of Medical Examiners of the state of California for the issuance of a certificate to practice medicine in said state and that he paid a registration fee of $100 in accordance with the terms of said section; that he produced the certificate entitling him to practice medicine issued by the Board of Medical Examiners of the state of Michigan, and proved to the satisfaction of the Board that he was the person named in said certificate and that it was issued to him in the year stated; that the requirements of the Detroit College of Medicine from which the petitioner was graduated, and the requirements of the Board of Medical Examiners of the state of Michigan, which Board was legally authorized to issue such certificate permitting petitioner to practice medicine, was not in any degree or particular less than those which are required for the issuance of a similar certificate to practice medicine in the state of California at the date of the issuance of said certificate. Petitioner also furnished respondents with satisfactory evidence showing that the requirements of the Detroit College of Medicine, which issued the certificate to petitioner, were up to the standard set by the California Board. ■