Misrepresentation in obtaining or renewing license; false advertising; practicing under another name; signing blank prescription forms; influencing patient to engage in sexual activity; discouraging second opinion; terminating care without adequate notice.

1. Law
2. Nevada Revised Statutes
3. Physicians, Physician Assistants, Medical Assistants, Perfusionists and Practitioners of Respiratory Care
4. Misrepresentation in obtaining or renewing license; false advertising; practicing under another name; signing blank prescription forms; influencing patient to engage in sexual activity; discouraging second opinion; terminating care without adequate notice.

The following acts, among others, constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure:

1. Obtaining, maintaining or renewing or attempting to obtain, maintain or renew a license to practice medicine by bribery, fraud or misrepresentation or by any false, misleading, inaccurate or incomplete statement.

2. Advertising the practice of medicine in a false, deceptive or misleading manner.

3. Practicing or attempting to practice medicine under another name.

4. Signing a blank prescription form.

5. Influencing a patient in order to engage in sexual activity with the patient or with others.

6. Attempting directly or indirectly, by way of intimidation, coercion or deception, to obtain or retain a patient or to discourage the use of a second opinion.

7. Terminating the medical care of a patient without adequate notice or without making other arrangements for the continued care of the patient.

(Added to NRS by 1983, 301; A 1985, 2236; 1987, 198)

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