Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: May 20, 1998
Whether the Respondent violated Section 458.331(1)(m), Florida Statutes, which requires a physician to keep legible medical records on Patient S.W., during the period August 20, 1992, through November 1992. Whether Respondent violated Section 458.331(1)(t), Florida Statutes, which prohibits gross or repeated malpractice or the failure to practice medicine with that level of care, skill, and treatment which is recognized by a reasonably prudent similar physician as being acceptable under similar conditions and circumstances, where Respondent performed surgery that was not necessary and/or failed to diagnose and treat a postoperative infection that resulted in necrosis of the Patient S.W.'s turbinates.Physician failed to keep legible medical treatment that justified course of treatment of patient; not guilty of gross malpractice in regard to diagnoses and surgery of patient; guilty of failure to diagnose and treat post-operative infection. Suspension.
