| Physician Last Name: | Gelbard |
| Physician First Name: | Steven |
| Physician Middle Name: | David |
| Address: | Address redacted |
| License Number: | 171648 |
| License Type: | MD |
| Year of Birth: |
1956
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| Effective Date: | 02/12/2018 |
| Action Description for DOH Webpage: | Censure and reprimand with probation for three years. |
| Misconduct Description for DOH Webpage: | The Hearing Committee sustained the charges finding the physician guilty of having committed professional misconduct by having been disciplined by the State of Florida Board of Medicine for failing to provide proper post-operative treatment and care; knowingly and intentionally using an unauthorized packing material; knowingly and intentionally leaving a foreign body in a patient; performing the procedure of packing a patients wound with a material not intended to be used on or within the human body without obtaining full consent from the patient; failing to diagnose postoperative complaints; failing to personally examine a patient prior to discharge and failing to timely update his profiling and credential requirements. |
| License Limitations or Conditions for DOH Webpage: | During the period of probation the physician may only practice medicine when his practice is being monitored by a licensed physician board certified in an appropriate specialty. |
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