Dialogue Volume 12 Issue 2 2016 | Page 52

discipline summaries member was dropping off or picking up forms, specialist information, or specimens for testing. (c) Dr. Patel did not follow Dr. Y’s recommendation to augment subjective histories documented by staff with his own additional questions. (d) Dr. Patel did not follow Dr. Y’s recommendation to obtain informed consent from patients prior to staff documenting patients’ subjective histories. (e) Dr. Patel did not follow Dr. Y’s recommendation to take steps to ensure that his EMR system clearly indicated which details were entered by which individual. (f ) Dr. Patel did not follow Dr. Y’s recommendation to take steps to ensure his staff did not make clinical decisions. (g) Dr. Patel did not follow Dr. Y’s recommendation to cease ordering unnecessary diagnostic tests. (h) Dr. Patel did not follow Dr. Y’s recommendation to cease routinely prescribing Biaxin and Alupent for cough symptoms. Dr. Patel failed to abide by a patient-specific treatment recommendation made by Dr. Y, in breach of his undertaking, in that he did not discontinue an outdated drug, Diabeta, wh