Case Name: Maria APIAU, M.D., Appellant, v. The FLORIDA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS, DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, DIVISION OF PROFESSIONS, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1985-08-06
Citations: 473 So. 2d 775
Docket Number: No. 84-1828
Parties: Maria APIAU, M.D., Appellant, v. The FLORIDA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS, DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, DIVISION OF PROFESSIONS, Appellee.
Judges: Before HENDRY, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 473
Pages: 775–775

Head Matter:
Maria APIAU, M.D., Appellant, v. The FLORIDA BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS, DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, DIVISION OF PROFESSIONS, Appellee.
No. 84-1828.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Aug. 6, 1985.
Heller & Kaplan and Seymour Kaplan, Miami, for appellant.
Michael J. Cohen, Fort Lauderdale, Joseph W. Lawrence, Tallahassee, for appel-lee.
Before HENDRY, BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In a 169-count complaint, appellant, a licensed Florida physician, was charged with inappropriately prescribing metha-qualone (quaaludes) on twenty-two specified dates to nine patients in violation of chapter 458, Florida Statutes (1983) (Medical Practice Act) and section 893.05, Florida Statutes (1983) (Florida Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act). The drug dispensing operation was run out of a "Stress Clinic" owned by a non-physician. This appeal is brought from a license revocation order of the Board of Medical Examiners. On examination of the entire record the evidence of statutory violations is overwhelming. The order is therefore
Affirmed.
. Each prescription was for forty-five tablets of 300 mg. methaqualone. Some were written before the "patients" were seen.