Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Latest Update: Feb. 04, 1988
This is a license discipline case in which the Petitioner seeks to take disciplinary action against the Respondent on the basis of allegations contained in a five-count Administrative Complaint. The charges against the Respondent may be summarized as follows: Count One charges the Respondent with violating Section 458.331(1)(h), Florida Statutes (1985) , by failing to perform any statutory or legal obligation placed on a licensed physician. Count Two charges the Respondent with violating Section 458.331(1)(1), Florida Statutes (1985), by making deceptive, untrue, or fraudulent representations in the practice of medicine when such scheme or trick fails to conform to the generally prevailing standards of treatment in the medical community. Count Three charges the Respondent with violating Section 458.331(1)(n), Florida Statutes (1985), by failing to keep written medical records justifying the course of treatment of the patient. Count Four charges the Respondent with violating Section 458.331(1)(q), Florida Statutes (1985), by prescribing, dispensing, administering, mixing, or otherwise preparing a legend drug, including any controlled substance, other than in the course of the physician's professional practice. Count Five charges the Respondent with violating Section 458.331(1)(t), Florida Statutes (1985), by gross or repeated malpractice, or the failure to practice medicine with that level of care, skill, or treatment which is recognized by a reasonably prudent similar physician as acceptable under similar conditions and circumstances. The Respondent filed an answer to the Administrative Complaint. In his answer, the Respondent admits some of the factual allegations in the Administrative Complaint, but denies all allegations of wrongdoing. Following the hearing, a transcript of the proceedings at hearing was filed on September 16, 1987, and the parties were allowed fifteen days from that date within which to file proposed recommended orders. The Respondent filed a proposed recommended order on October 1, 1987, and the Petitioner filed one on October 2, 1987. Careful consideration has been given to the parties' proposed recommended orders, and specific rulings on all findings of fact proposed by the parties are contained in the Appendix which is attached to and incorporated into this recommended order.Evidence establishes violations of subsections; evidence insufficient as to other violations charged