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Can a P.A be sued in Florida for malpractice

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CAT.needs-help

Junior Member
Florida.... Physicians Assistant refused to accept DSM diagnosis and forced person into un-needed medications and caused set back in treatment? can he be sued for malpractice? also can hospital be held responsible for allowing him to treat patients?
 


Just Blue

Senior Member
Florida.... Physicians Assistant refused to accept DSM diagnosis and forced person into un-needed medications and caused set back in treatment? can he be sued for malpractice? also can hospital be held responsible for allowing him to treat patients?
Is there a question here?
 

barry1817

Senior Member
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Florida.... Physicians Assistant refused to accept DSM diagnosis and forced person into un-needed medications and caused set back in treatment? can he be sued for malpractice? also can hospital be held responsible for allowing him to treat patients?
You need to be very clear on what this PA did.
You need to be very clear on what state board allows a PA to do.

To prevail in a malpractice case, you need to show:

The treatment was below the standard of care. a PA treating differently, on their own, from what a doctor prescribed might very well be below the standard of care, by definition.

They must have caused you damage/harm by their act. From your quote you seem clear that this happened.

There must be a financial component. That you will need to quantify and be prepared with documentation to support the financial component.

Sounds like you might need to talk to a malpractice attorney, and if you do that have the documents readily available to show the lawyer the problem, the harm and the financial loss.
 

ecmst12

Senior Member
A PA has a license, so there is a scope of care that he is allowed to do within the license, and there are standards of care which need to be upheld. If he provided care below the standard, and that substandard care resulted in permanent damage to the patient, then he is guilty of malpractice. It is unlikely that just because you disagreed with his treatment, the treatment was actually below the standard of care, but a review by another healthcare provider or a malpractice attorney can tell you more.
 

CAT.needs-help

Junior Member
this client had checked herself into a locked ward hospital due to increasing depression. Client has 3 herniated discs along with PTSD and D.I.D. PA forced client into a detox program when client takes less than 1/3 allowed pain/anxiety meds each month....PA also stated D.I.D did not exsist in ANYONE ever and client was psychotic and forced anti-psychotics. Client was unable to leave hospital under threat of forced commitment until detox was completed resulting in a setback in treatment for the D.I.D as well as a week extreme pain from the disc problem.
Where would information on Florida state board rules(scope of practice) be located?
would the clients therapist's statement that the standard of care was well below acceptable be adequate ?
The financial component would be the time and cost in therapy to return to the level achieved prior to the hospitalization.
 

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