State Surgeon General Orders Restriction On Dade City Doctor

The state surgeon general has issued an emergency order restricting the license of a Dade City physician, citing multiple allegations of medical malpractice and sexual assault.

A December 19 court order from the Florida Department of Health indicates that Florida Surgeon General John H. Armstrong, M.D., F.A.C.S., ordered an emergency restriction on the medical license of Dr. Daniel Philip McBath, D.O., a Dade City osteopathic physician, for multiple alleged instances of medical malpractice and sexual assault. 

The order details the accounts of several patients that have come forward since 2004 and reported multiple instances of sexual assault by Dr. McBath, with several patients asserting that they were assaulted while under the influence of narcotics the doctor administered without consent.

“Because an osteopathic physician with a history of drugging and sexually assaulting female patients poses a danger to every female patient for whom the osteopathic physician provides care, Dr. McBath’s continued practice as an osteopathic physician presents a risk of immediate, serious danger to the health, welfare and safety of the public,” Dr. Armstrong wrote in the order. “Because of the egregiousness of Dr. McBaths’s conduct, it is impossible to craft a lesser restriction that would adequately protect the public from the danger posed by Dr. McBath’s continued unrestricted practice as an osteopathic physician.”

Dr. Armstrong’s order restricts Dr. McBath from his practice as an osteopathic physician and seeks a formal disciplinary proceeding for his license.