disciplinaryproceedingswithregardtoDr.

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ofM edicalExam iners. TheentryofthisOrdershallnotlim ittheauthorityoftheAttorney General

or of any other person or agency, to initiate any other action perm itted by law w'hether
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THIS ORDER IS EFFECTIVE UPON ENTRY .

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* Board member George Ciechanowski, M.D. was recused from discussion

and vote on this matter .
 held before a meeting o f the Board convened in Cranford New
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Jersey . Complainant Attorney General appeared , represented by

Deborah E . W inston , Deputy Attorney General . Respondent
Dawoud appeared , represented by Dickson , Creighton & Lowenstein
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Roger A . Lowenstein , Esq ., appearing . At said hearing , the Board

entertained argument of counsel , following which Dawoud was
sworn upon his oath and responded to questions posed by members
of the Board . Counsel for Dr . Dawoud noted that Judge Thompson

had commented that Dr . Dawoud 's crime was an ''isolated event''

and
that the sentence had been fashioned in a manner so as to allow

Dr . Dawoud to ''give back '' to his community . Dr . Dawoud stated

that one of the two aliens involved had approached him and

repeatedly ''begged '' him to falsify the report in order to prevent

possible dqportation . Dr. Dawoud also stated that said alien was

a patient of his at the time and that he has continued to treat

the patient since the time the report was prepared . Respondent
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activities he had bpen involved in including his having provided

approximatèly $8000 per month in financial support to a

community medical clinic .

Based upon our review of the record before us e the Board

p reliminarily finds that the charges against respondent Dr .
Dawoud have been proven and provide grounds for this Board to
take action against the license of Dr . Dawoud . We thus find
respondent 's conviction to have been a conviction of a crime

involving moral turpitude as well as a conviction of a crime

relating adversely to the practice o f medicine , and we find that

 the convictions establish facts which demonst
rate that respondent
engaged the use or employment of dishon
esty , deception ,
m isr ep re sen t at io n , fa ls e prom ise or fa lse pre ten se
and
pro fessional misconduct .

fïnd Dr . Dawoud 's ac tions to be inde fen sïb le and

inexcusable and conclude that those actïons warrant the penalt
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of licensure revocation . By deliberately falsifying medical
records , Dr . Dawoud usurped the public trust placed upon him as a
medical licensee and shattered the expectatïon of
accuracy and
reliability implicit in medïcal records . We have the past
consistently recognized that deliberate falyification of records

is grounds for the revocation of licensure

, and note that upon
Judicial review, the Appellate Div ision has held that the
deliberate falsification of medical
records must be regarded as
the equivalent o f gross malpractice ; thus
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to In re
Jascalevich License Revocation , 182 N TJ , Super . 455 , 471-2
(APP , Piy , :983 ) and aâopt the belxyw. .se.t .vforth- comme-nts
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concerning the duty of a physician to prepd

re accurate and
tr u th fu l med ica l record s and th e effect s o f de l ibe rate
falsification of records :

We are persuaded that a physician 's duty to patient

a
canno t but encompass his affirmative obligation to
maintain the integrity , accuracy , truth and reliability
of the patient 's medical record v His obligation in this
regard is no less compelling than his duties r
diagnosis and t especting
there f o reatment of the patient . . . We hold ,
re , tha t a d e liber ate fals if ic at io n b y a
physician of his patient 's medical record
regarded as gr . . . must bu
oss malpractice endangering the health or
life o f his patient .

Although Dr . Dawoud has argued in mitigation th

at the first
falsification of records was done at the behest of the patient
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