Elderly doctor couldn’t hear patient’s screams during colonoscopy — because he wasn’t wearing hearing aid, board finds
Kelly RissmanTue, 20 August 2024 at 10:43 pm SGT2-min read
Ambulatory Surgery Center Tampa where elderly doctor put on probation after not hearing screaming colonoscopy patient (Google Maps)
An elderly Tampa gastroenterologist is on probation after he failed to hear a patient screaming during a colonoscopy.
After 34 years with a medical license, Dr Ishwari Prasad was placed on probation by the Florida Board of Medicine after a complaint accused him of medical malpractice, citing two procedures at the Ambulatory Surgery Center Tampa in June 2023 in which he failed to “effectively communicate” with his team and the patients because he wasn’t wearing his required hearing aids.
During one colonoscopy, the gastroenterologist “began inserting the scope” before the patient was fully sedated. The patient started yelling — but Dr Prasad “did not immediately stop the procedure” because he wasn’t wearing his hearing aids, the October 10, 2023 complaint says.
