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outdated drug, Diabeta, wh