No discipline warranted for physician, based on good-faith effort to comply with reporting requirements

The Georgia Composite Medical Board sought sanctions against one of its licensed physicians for purportedly failing to notify the Board that he had entered an alcohol-abuse treatment program.  The Court concluded that, while the physician failed to meet the 30-day reporting requirement, the evidence showed he made a good-faith effort to submit the required notification, and that this failure “was a clerical error, rather than deliberate concealment.”  Given these circumstances, the Court determined sanctions were unwarranted.