Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Mar. 12, 1998
The issues for determination in this case are whether Respondent's license to practice medicine should be revoked or otherwise disciplined for the reasons set forth in the Administrative Complaint, specifically for: 1) Respondent's failure to meet the acceptable standard of care for psychiatry by failing to perform a mental status examination on patient G.K. at the time of the patient’s admission to Medfield Hospital in February 1996; Respondent's failure to place patient G.K. under continual close observation and/or in a room where suicide would have been more difficult or impossible; and 3) Respondent's failure to order consultations and staff conferences regarding patient G.K.’s condition during his admission at Medfield Hospital in February 1996.Psychiatrist did not violate standard of care in placing hospital patient under suicide precautions calling for 15 minute checks, where psychiatrist was familiar with patient and hospital staff failed to enforce contraband restrictions.
