DEVAL L. PATRICK
GOVERNOR

JOHN W. POLANOWICZ
SECRETARY

CHERYL BARTLETT, RN
COMMISSIONER

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Department of Public Health
Division of Health Professions Licensure Board of Registration of Physician Assistants
239 Causeway Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02114

Tel: 617-973-0806
Fax: 617-973-0980
www.mass.gov/dph/boards/pa

VIA U.S. FIRST CLASS CERTIFIED MAIL, # 7014 0510 0001 0374 9121 RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

October 24, 2014

Chad P. Brouillard, Esq. Foster & Eldridge, LLP
One Canal Park, Suite 2100 Cambridge, MA 02141

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Re: In the Matter of Margaret Briscoe Rawson License No. PAlOO
Docket No. PA-2014-001 Dear Attorney Brouillard:
This letter acknowledges receipt by the Board of Respiratory Care (Board) of two signed, originals of the Consent Agreement for Reprimand (Agreement) between Ms. Rawson and the Board in resolution of the above-referenced complaint.  The Board has now signed the Agreement, and submits a copy for your client's records.  Please note carefully that the effective date of the Agreement is October 23, 2014 as stated on the signature page of the agreement.

A copy of this letter and the Agreement will remain in complaint file Docket No. AP-20 14-001. The file will be retained for no less than three (3) years in accordance with state public records laws.

Thank you for your cooperation.

David Murphy, Board Counsel Board of Respiratory Care

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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

SUFFOLK COUNTY	BOARD OF REGISTRATION OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

In the Matter of
MARGARET BRISCOE RAWSON

Registration No.   PA100 Expires 03/01115

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CONSENT AGREEMENT FOR REPRIMAND

The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Physician Assistants (Board) and Margaret Briscoe Rawson (Licensee), a registered physician assistant duly licensed and authorized to practice in that capacity by the Board, Registration No. PA100, do hereby stipulate and agree that the following information shall be entered into and become a permanent part of the Licensee's record maintained by the Board:

1.	The Licensee agrees that this Consent Agreement for Reprimand (Reprimand Agreement) is entered into in resolution of the Board's investigation of a complaint filed against her Massachusetts physician assistant registration, Docket No. PA-20140-001.

2.	The Licensee acknowledges that her conduct, as documented in Docket No. PA- 20140'-001, constitutes grounds for disciplinary action for failure to comply with the Board's prohibition against gross incompetence on a particular occasion, identified at 263 Code of Massachusetts Regulations (C.M.R.) 6.02(e) and consequently warrants disciplinary action by the Board under Massachusetts General Laws (M.G.L.) Chapter  112, §§9F, 9H and Board regulations at 263
C.M.R. 6.02, Grounds for Disciplinary Actions.  Specifically, the Licensee admits
that on or about February 16, 2012 while employed as a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner at Women's Health Care in Haverhill, MA and while holding a valid physician assistant's registration, she retrieved a speculum from an instrument drawer which she knew contained a small amount of blood from a previous patient.  She used that speculum while performing an internal examination and Pap smear on a subsequent patient.

Reprimand Agreement

3.	The Licensee agrees that the Board hereby imposes a REPRIMAND on her Massachusetts physician assistant registration, as authorized by MGL c. 112 §9H and 263 C.M.R. 6.02 for her conduct as acknowledged above in Paragraph 2, effective as of the date on which this Reprimand Agreement is signed by the Board (Effective Date).

4.	The Board agrees that in return for the Licensee's execution of this Reprimand Agreement it will not prosecute the allegations arising from its investigation of Docket No. PA20140-001.

5.	The Licensee understands and agrees that entering into this Reprimand Agreement is a final act and not subject to reconsideration, appeal or judicial review.

6.	The Licensee states that she has used legal counsel in connection with her decision to enter into this Reprimand Agreement or, if she has not used legal counsel, that the decision not to do so has been one taken of her own free will.

7.	The Licensee understands and agrees that after its Effective Date, the Reprimand Agreement constitutes a public record evidencing disciplinary action by the Board and that the Board may forward a copy of this Agreement to other licensing boards, law enforcement entities, and to other individuals or entities as required or permitted by law.

8.	The Licensee agrees to return to the Board, either by hand or certified mail, two
(2) Duplicate originals of this Reprimand Agreement signed, witnessed and dated, within fifteen (15) days of her receipt of this unsigned, proposed Agreement from the Board.

9.	The Licensee certifies that she has read this document entitled "Consent Agreement for Reprimand."  The Licensee understands that she has a right to formal adjudicatory hearing concerning the allegations against her and that during said adjudication she would possess 'the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to present evidence, to testify on her own behalf, to contest the allegations, to present oral argument, to appeal to the courts, and all other rights as set forth in the Massachusetts Administrative Procedures Act, G. L.
c. 30A and the Standard Adjudicatory Rules of Practice and Procedure, 801 CMR
1.01 et seq.  The Licensee further agrees that she understands that in executing
this document entitled "Consent Agreement for Reprimand,” she is knowingly and

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Voluntarily waiving her right to a formal adjudication of the above-referenced. complaint and to all of the related rights listed above.

Witness (sign and date)	MARGARET	BRISCOE RAWSON 
Licensee (sign and date)

 Witness (print name)

Mary Phillips, Esq. Executive Director
Board of Registration of Physician Assistants

Fully Signed Agreement Sent to Licensee on 10/24/14
Mail No. 70140510000103249121

By Certified

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