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Facts:
RATIO:
The Board of Medical examiners cannot, consistently with the
self-incriminating clause, compel the person proceeded against to take the witness
stand without his consent. A proceeding for malpractice possesses a criminal or
penal aspect in the sense that the respondent would suffer the revocation of his
license as a medical practitioner which is even a greater form of deprivation than
forfeiture of property.
While crime should not go unpunished and that the truth must be revealed,
such desirable objective should not be accomplished according to means offensive
to high sense of respect accorded to human personality. More and more in line with