Marvin Mandel, Governor                         2057

take whatever action it deems appropriate, as provided herein. All
investigations, reports, and recommendations shall be considered
confidential until such time as a final action is taken by the Com-
mission.

The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland may
initiate action by virtue of information coming to its attention from
its own members or through any other source, such cases being
handled in the same manner as though they had been referred to it
by the Commission.

(h) Powers of Commission; unprofessional conduct.—When the
Commission has completed its investigation according to the process
outlined herein, it may reprimand a physician or place him on pro-
bation, revoke or suspend his license, or dismiss the charges against
the physician for any of the causes listed below as unprofessional
conduct:

(1)  Fraudulent or deceptive procuring or use of a license.

(2)  Solicitation or advertising contrary to Section 129 of this
article.

(3)  The performance of a criminal abortion. AN ABORTION
OUTSIDE A LICENSED HOSPITAL.

(4) Conviction of a crime involving 'moral turpitude.

(5)  Abandonment of a patient.

(6)  Addiction to narcotics, habitual drunkenness or rendering
professional services to a patient if the physician is intoxicated or
under the influence of drugs.

(7)  Promotion by a physician of the sale of drugs, devices, ap-
pliances or goods provided for a patient in such a manner as to
exploit the patient for financial gain of the physician.

(8)  Immoral conduct of a physician in his practice as a physician.

(9)   Willfully making and filing false reports or records, in his
practice as a physician.

(10)   Willful omission to file or record, or willfully impeding or
obstructing a filing or recording, or inducing another person to omit
to file or record medical reports required by law.

(11)  Failure to furnish details of a patient's medical record to
succeeding physicians or hospital upon proper request.

(12)  Solicitation of professional patronage by agents or persons,
or profiting from the acts of those representing themselves to be
agents of the licensed physician.

(13) Division of fees or agreeing to split or divide the fees re-
ceived for professional services with any person for bringing to or
referring a patient.

(14) Willful misrepresentation in treatments.

(15) Practicing medicine with an unlicensed physician except in
an accredited preceptorship or residency training program; or aid-
ing or abetting such unlicensed persons in the practice of medicine.