Case No. 08-20231-1

The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners received and reviewed the formal disciplinary Complaint filed by the Investigative Committee on November 24, 2008, and the Hearing Officer's Synopsis of the Record and Recommendations to the Board of Medical Examiners on the Motion of Clifford Carrol, M.D. to Dismiss the Board Complaint filed on June 8, 2010. Upon review of the Synopsis and upon consideration of all circumstances and facts set forth within the Synopsis, the Board entered the following order:  IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Board adopts the Recommendations to the Board of Medical Examiners filed on June 8, 2010 by the Hearing Officer appointed to hear this matter.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Complaint against Clifford Carrol, M.D. is hereby dismissed without prejudice.

The Investigative Committee of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners filed a formal complaint against Dr. Carrol, charging him with two violations of NRS 630.301(4), for failing to use the reasonable care, skill, or knowledge ordinarily used under similar circumstances when the hepatitis C virus carried by Patient A was allowed to be transmitted to other patients of ECSN, after Patient A was under Respondent's care for a colonoscopy, and when Patient B contracted hepatitis C while under Respondent's care at the ECSN for a colonoscopy; a violation of NRS 630.306(7), for continued failure to exercise the skill or diligence or use the methods ordinarily exercised under the same circumstances by physicians in good standing practicing in the same specialty or field when, while under his care and by his conduct the hepatitis C virus carried by Patient A was transmitted to other patients at ECSN on September 21, 2007, including Patient B; and a violation of NRS 630.301(9), for owning and participating in a medical practice, namely ECSN, which made medical, clinical and operational decisions that created the conditions which, while performing routine colonoscopies on September 21, 2007, Dr. Carrol's treatment and care of Patients A and B resulted in the hepatitis C virus carried by Patient A being transmitted to other patients, including Patient B, thus bringing the medical profession into disrepute. 

The Investigative Committee of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners filed a formal complaint against Dr. Carrol, charging him with a violation of NRS 630.301(4), for failing to use reasonable care, skill or knowledge ordinarily used under similar circumstances in performing two colonoscopies on the patient in the underlying complaint. The documentation of both colonoscopies is poor and does not indicate that thorough and complete examinations were completed during the endoscopies. Further, Dr. Carrol failed to provide reasonable care for subsequent follow-up on the heme-positive stool which led to the patient's original referral and colonoscopy.

Case No. 10-11702-1

On June 10, 2011 a Settlement, Waiver and Consent Agreement was accepted and approved by the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners in settlement of its Complaint against Dr. Carrol.  Pursuant to the agreement, Dr. Carrol shall complete 8 hours CME on the subject of documentation of colonoscopies (if available) and/or the subject of advances in colonoscopy, to be pre-approved by Board and to be completed within 12 months of the Board’s acceptance of the agreement.  Additionally, Dr. Carrol will submit to random reviews of his charts for a period of 6 months beginning on the date of the acceptance of the agreement by the Board and pay the costs associated with such reviews within 30 days of receiving an invoice for said costs.  Dr. Carrol will reimburse the Board’s costs and expenses incurred in the investigation and prosecution of the case against him, payable within 90 days of the Board’s acceptance of the agreement.

09/15/2011

Case No. 10-11702-1

Dr. Carrol has completed all terms of the Settlement, Waiver and Consent Agreement filed June 13, 2011.