The original poster stated, in her second post, >The Washington State Veterinary Board does not suspend a vets license >on one accusation. ALL medical boards (physician, veterinarian, nursing, pharmacy, psychology, etc) do *indeed* have the option of suspending a license to practice on only one accusation, if they determine that accusation is severe enough to warrant a suspension until further investigation is completed. While my husband's license was not suspended, he faced this possibility on ONLY one accusation -- which was invented by the area supervisor for his grocery store chain, who's only interest was in cutting costs for the company. He *never* received one single complaint from any of his patients -- in fact, many of them wrote letters of outrage to the store, as well as letters of support to the state pharmacy board, after all this happened. The state board had the choice of either suspending or not suspending his license, & they chose not to do so, as they did not consider this a legitimate matter. I do not know this veterinarian, I do not know the details of the case, I do not know how many complaints were filed, & I certainly would not venture to guess the facts. However, the statement made about license suspensions is not true, & I simply wanted to explain how this works. If a physician who works w/ humans were to make a serious mistake, resulting in the permanent disability or death of a patient, the medical board would NOT wait until that doctor made the same mistake 5 more times before taking action -- they would do it immediately. The same approach is taken by *all* medical boards. To do otherwise would be unethical on the part of the medical professions. Lin [Posted in FML 7155]