After numerous dealings with the law, a Leesburg doctor may lose his hospital privileges while he awaits trial in jail without bond. Two local hospital administrators have stated that they plan on terminating the accused, 51-year old Dr. Akram Ismail, clinical practicing privileges at both Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Regional Hospital. Ismail practices internal medicine and gastroenterology in the central Florida area.
In 2004, the doctor faced DUI and reckless driving charges after allegedly getting behind the wheel while intoxicated. In 2005, Ismail served 90 days in jail for disrupting a flight headed to Orlando from New York. Alcohol may have also been involved at the time of his second arrest.
However, this central Florida physician is in hot water with authorities again. Officers arrested Ismail on solicitation to commit murder, solicitation to commit aggravated battery and solicitation to place or discharge a destructive device against his former business associate, Dr. Nehme Gabriel. It is alleged that Gabriel left the practice and Dr. Ismail lost patients.
Despite the physicians' request for bond and to continue treating patients, the Judge denied his release pending the investigation. Hospitals are protecting would be patients against this doctor with the criminal past of drunk driving charges in combination with the most recent felony crime accusations.
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