Lyons v. Iowa Bd. of Med. (Summary)

PHYSICIAN LICENSURE

Lyons v. Iowa Bd. of Med., No. 08-1538 (Iowa Ct. App. June 17, 2009)

The Iowa Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision, upholding the Iowa Board of Medicine’s suspension of a physician’s license to practice medicine and its refusal to facilitate the production of certain medical records. The Board of Medicine imposed a 90-day suspension on a physician’s license, finding him professionally incompetent after complications had occurred during his treatment of a teenage girl. The physician argued that the Board did not have authority to discipline a license after only one "alleged simple negligence" case and because his license had lapsed prior to the suspension. The physician also sought the release of additional medical records. The court held that state law gave the Board of Medicine authority to suspend the physician’s license and refused to grant the release of additional medical records.