Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Nov. 14, 2001
Whether Respondent's license as a physician should be disciplined for the alleged violation of Section 458.331(1)(t), Florida Statutes, in that Respondent failed 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, by failing to treat the patient's preoperative coagulopathy and/or failing to use an alternate vein that would have allowed visualization of the shunt placement into the vein thereby reducing the risk of causing a hemorrhage given the patient's preoperative history, and, if so, what penalty should be imposed.Petitioner failed to prove Respondent committed malpractice in 1994 by failing to treat patient`s pre-op coagulopathy and/or failed to use alternate vein during shunt placement, and in 1997 by failing to clean artery correctly during repair of aneurysm.
