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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nDr. Ishwari Prasad also was fined $7,500, must pay $6,301 in Florida Department of Health case costs, and has to take a five-hour continuing medical education course in laws, rules, and ethics before Aug. 7, 2025. But the probation provides the meat of Prasad\u2019s punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prasad, who has been licensed in Florida since October 1990, can\u2019t perform any gastroenterology procedures solo until he\u2019s either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25aa Evaluated by the University of Florida\u2019s Florida Comprehensive Assessment and Remedial Education Services Program (Florida CARES); UC San Diego PACE program; or Center for Personalized Education for Professionals as far as his competency. Or…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25aa Does at least 10 gastroenterology procedures \u201cunder the supervision of a physician … actively engaged in the performance of gastroenterology procedures, board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine…\u201d among other qualities. Five of the procedures must be colonoscopies, and the 10 procedures must be spread over at least five days. The supervisor will make a recommendation to the probation committee on whether Prasad can go back to working alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. John Delgado has been approved as the supervisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prasad has never been disciplined by the Board of Medicine previously, but state records show some insurance payouts to patients of $250,000 in 2017 to the estate of a patient, who alleged a mistake caused a year-long delay in diagnosing colon cancer <\/a>; $115,000 in 2008 to a patient who suffered \u201ca spontaneous perforation of a diverticula <\/a>in the third portion of the duodenum\u201d and died after a long hospital stay; and $250,000 in 2004 to a patient who \u201c sustained a colon perforation <\/a>following the colonoscopy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prasad\u2019s current problems started on June 5, 2023, at the Ambulatory Surgery Center, 4500 E. Fletcher Ave. in the Tampa area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The doctor won\u2019t hear you now<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Florida Department of Health administrative complaint, Prasad uses hearing aids, but wasn\u2019t wearing them during the two colonoscopies he was in charge of that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDuring one or both procedures, the surgical team was unable to effectively communicate\u201d with Prasad, the complaint said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the first colonoscopy, the complaint said, Prasad \u201cimproperly delegated\u201d to a surgical tech, someone without a medical license, at least one of the following tasks: scope insertion, scope manipulation, manipulating the snare over polyps or tissue or removing polyps or tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the second colonoscopy, the complaint said, Prasad \u201cbegan inserting the scope before the patient was fully sedated. 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