Eye Doctors Disciplined For Wrong Treatment
The Florida Board of Medicine has decided to take action against two Polk doctors for wrong treatment. Both the doctors were charged with mistakes in treating patients. The Florida Board has decided to accept the disciplinary settlement made by Dr. Alan Lingenfelter, a Winter Haven anesthesiologist. The accused doctor is fined with $ 5,000. Other than that, he will deliver a one-hour lecture on wrong-site surgeries, as well as doing 50 hours of community service.
Dr. Lingenfelter, was accused of applying applied anesthesia beside the wrong eye, while preparing a patient for the cataract surgery in 2005 at Sebring. He later on documented his error medical records and told the eye surgeon what had happened.
Another complaint accuses a retired Lake Wales doctor for wrong treatment. The board however accepted the accused Doctor, Dr William Hardman's offer to relinquish his Florida medical license to resolve a 2003 medical complaint. The charge against him of damaging bladder and intestine of a woman during a tubal litigation he performed. The next day, she complains of severe abdominal pain. Hardman gave her antibiotic only to harm her health. The complaint said this is a known complication of tubal ligation and that Hardman hadn't kept sufficient medical records to justify the treatment he provided.
Source: THE LEDGER
Filed under Cataract, Cataract Surgery, Eye Diseases, Eye Surgery, Eye Treatment
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