Fifteen years of DUI discipline, from reprimand to revocation

Headline figures

Descriptive aggregates are published from register-verified fields only. Decision-level fields remain pending.

Dataset V2 — fifteen years, two provenance layers

V2 adds a contributed external compilation of 118 records spanning 2011 to 2026, drawn from 27 Board publications. It extends the corpus back eleven years beyond the KPSGILL read and contributes 93 records that were not previously held.

The layers are kept separate and separately gradeable. Neither is merged into the other, every record carries a layer field, and field coverage differs between them — the exports show empty cells rather than imputed values.

Cross-validation, and what it found

25 licensees appear in both layers, compiled independently by different parties from the same Board registers. Agreement on identity, licence number and disposition class across two separate reads is the strongest accuracy evidence in the dataset.

It also surfaced 4 open discrepancies, all effective dates. Neither reading was overwritten:

One may reflect a newsletter publication window against a decision effective date. One (Gupta) may be two separate dispositions for the same licensee, since the KPSGILL record references a prior case number.

Outcome distribution across fifteen years

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Summary

The Medical Board of California’s published Administrative Actions registers show alcohol-related physician matters resolving across the full disciplinary range — public letters of reprimand, public reprimands, multi-year probation, probation with actual suspension, surrender of licence and outright revocation.

Apparently similar abbreviated charge descriptions sometimes correspond to materially different published outcomes. The register does not contain enough information to establish why those outcomes differ.

Method — two verification layers

AUTOMATED SECOND READ BLOCKED BY SOURCE SERVER — the Board’s BreezePDL document server returns Request Rejected to automated retrieval. No workaround was attempted. Second read requires a human browser session; every record preserves its decision link for that purpose.

Full documentation: the dataset README.

Key register-level observations

1. The published outcome for alcohol-related physician matters occupies every rung the Medical Practice Act provides. Nine dispositions are public letters of reprimand; four are public reprimands; fifty-two are probation; three carry actual suspension; sixteen are surrenders; four are outright revocations.
2. Probation length among physician primary records runs 12 to 120 months, median 60, interquartile range 36–60.
3. Cost recovery is stated in 50/88 physician records, ranging $3,600.00 to $56,508.20, median $18,369.00. Cost does not track nominal severity: the highest single physician figure attaches to probation, while a public reprimand carries $18,603.25.
4. Three records carry actual suspension: DANISHWAR (60 days), VREEKE (180 days). All three print conduct going beyond a driving conviction.
5. The register’s phrase "drugs and/or alcohol" appears throughout and does not establish that alcohol was the substance. Every such field is marked ambiguous rather than resolved.
6. One window contrast is worth recording without over-reading it: Volume 169 contains six reprimand dispositions for alcohol-related convictions, while Volume 168 — a complete adjacent register — contains none. Two windows do not establish a change in Board practice, and the register does not print why a resolution route was available.

Based on the Medical Board of California’s published Administrative Actions register; decision-level second read remains pending where noted.

The reprimand register

All 15 reprimand dispositions in the dataset. Each licensee name links to the Board’s own decision document.

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Outcome ladder

Physician primary records only, computed from the finalised dataset, using the Board’s own disposition wording. “Revoked, stayed — probation” is stayed revocation. Applicants and allied-profession comparators are excluded from these counts.

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Based on the Medical Board of California’s published Administrative Actions register; decision-level second read remains pending where noted.

All DUI decisions, by published outcome

Of the 103 records, 49 print an explicit driving-related alcohol conviction — driving under the influence, driving with a blood alcohol content of .08% or more, wet reckless, or reckless driving involving alcohol. This section covers every one of them, not only those resolving in a reprimand.

Outcome labels are the Board’s own. “Revoked, stayed — probation” is stayed revocation: the licence is revoked and the revocation stayed on probationary terms. It is the most common DUI disposition in the dataset and is distinct both from outright revocation and from a reprimand.

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Printed-conduct subgroups

Counts by what the register prints, not by what the conduct was. A record may appear in more than one subgroup.

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Based on the Medical Board of California’s published Administrative Actions register; decision-level second read remains pending where noted.

Selected register-level comparisons

The full record set

All 103 records, register-verified, with decision-level second read pending throughout. Rows are in the page source and are crawlable whether or not the panel is open.

Limitations

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Cite as: KPSGILL Medical Discipline Observatory, Dataset V1 (3 September 2026), compiled from the Medical Board of California Administrative Actions registers, Newsletter Volumes 163 and 167–172.

What second read will test

Seventeen records are queued for decision-document reading. They are not a sample — they are the records whose register entries raise a question the register itself cannot answer.

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