Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Oct. 17, 1991
The issues for determination in this case are whether the Board of Medicine should discipline the Respondent, Jayaprakash Kamath, M.D., on charges set out in the Administrative Complaint, DPR Case No. 89-8841. Specifically, the Administrative Complaint charges that the Respondent was guilty of gross or repeated malpractice or 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 and that he failed to keep written medical records justifying the course of treatment of a patient, in violation of Section 458.331(1)(m) and (t), Fla. Stat. (1991)--and, if so, what discipline is appropriate.Doctor treated and discharged 23-hour hospital patient without reading Xrays or getting radiologist's report: violation of 458.331(1)(t).