McDONNELL v. COMM'N ON MEDICAL DISCIPLINE

No. 25, September Term, 1984.

301 Md. 426 (1984)

483 A.2d 76

EDMOND J. McDONNELL v. COMMISSION ON MEDICAL DISCIPLINE.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 2, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shale D. Stiller, Baltimore (Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellant.

Susan K. Gauvey, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen. and Martha H. Somerville, Staff Atty., Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE and COUCH, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The question presented in this medical disciplinary case is whether a physician's attempt to intimidate adverse witnesses scheduled to testify against him at a medical malpractice trial constitutes "[i]mmoral conduct of a physician in his practice as a physician" in violation of Maryland Code (1957, 1980 Repl.Vol.), Article 43, § 130(h)(8).

I.

In 1975, Dr. Edmond J. McDonnell, a Maryland orthopedic surgeon, was sued for...

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