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I Can Lose My Dental License Because of a DUI?

By Neil Shouse, Esq.

Yes, that?s right. Even though it sounds unduly harsh (and utterly ridiculous), the Dental Board of California may suspend your California dental license based on a misdemeanor conviction. The Board takes disciplinary action against any dentist who suffers a conviction (a felony or misdemeanor) that is ?substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of being a dentist?. Okay, that makes sense. But how is a DUI substantially related to those duties? It?s really not. The Board has determined that a dentist who suffers two or more misdemeanor convictions involving the consumption of alcoholic beverages has engaged in ?unprofessional conduct?...and that?s how they justify it. I definitely think one can make the argument that just because one has too much to drink at a social gathering (or in this case, two) and then drives home doesn?t mean that his/her professional judgment should necessarily be called into question...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blogger on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).