discipline summaries
After learning she was MRSA positive, Dr. Pratt
treated herself for the MRSA and returned to her regular duties as a surgeon at the hospital before completing
her treatment, without seeking medical care from any
other physician for MRSA coordination and without
confirming she was no longer colonized with MRSA.
She also failed to take reasonable steps to ensure the
accuracy of the health record of the staff member under
whose name she had submitted her own samples for
testing. In addition to antibiotics for MRSA, Dr. Pratt
repeatedly prescribed other medications for herself
between 2006 and 2012.
Dr. Pratt has taken a boundaries and record-keeping
course, as well as attended educational sessions relevant
to surgical site infections and ethics.
Reasons for Penalty
The Committee considered the aggravating and mitigating factors in this case. Mitigati