Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Feb. 19, 1993
The issues to be resolved in this proceeding concern whether the Respondent has failed to practice medicine at the level of care, skill, and treatment recognized by reasonably prudent, similarly-situated physicians, by allegedly failing to appreciate the nature of a complaint, failing to order a proper diagnostic test, and failing to make a timely referral to an appropriate specialist, as well as whether the Respondent failed to keep adequate medical records documenting a rationale for his diagnosis of the patient, in alleged violation, respectively, of Sections 458.331(1)(t) and 458.331(1)(m), Florida Statutes.Respondent failed to follow recommmendation of physician in his office who had seen patient 5 times and found lump and referred to specialist: below standards.; failed to show rational.
