Dr Ishwari Prasad, an 84-year-old Indian-American gastroenterologist from Florida, is facing disciplinary action after a colonoscopy incident where he failed to respond to a patient’s cries of pain.

Ingrid Rafael said she needed a colonoscopy and endoscopy in 2018 and went to Dr. Ishwari Prasad at the Ambulatory Surgery Center in Tampa. Rafael believes the anesthesia was improperly ...