Child Drugging
Senate Watchdog Targets High-Prescribing Medicaid Docs
ProPublica
Senate Watchdog Targets High-Prescribing Medicaid Docs
by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
Jan. 24, 2012
An influential U.S. senator is grilling officials in nearly three-dozen states, demanding to know how they are cracking down on physicians who prescribe massive amounts of potentially dangerous prescription drugs.
Iowa Republican Charles Grassley sent letters to 34 states Monday asking what steps
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Sexual Misconduct
Psychologist Michael Walczak license suspended over sex allegations
Sun Sentinel
Margate psychologist’s license suspended over sexual relationship allegations
By Tonya Alanez
November 26, 2011
A Margate psychologist has had his license suspended and must undergo treatment as a result of allegations that he had an improper sexual relationship with the mother of a 16-year-old patient.
In May 2009, a Broward civil jury ordered that Dr. Michael Walczak pay
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Sex Therapist ordered to stop treating women
Miami Herald
A Plantation sex therapist was ordered by the Department of Health to stop seeing female patients after a 36-year-old woman accused him of engaging in sexual contact with her.
By John Dorschner
State regulators Thursday ordered N. Jay Tow, a Plantation sex therapist, to stop treating female patients in private after the state surgeon general concluded
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Orlando Sentinel
State suspends license of Orlando marriage and family therapist, cites ’sexual misconduct’
By Eloísa Ruano González
The Florida Department of Health has suspended the license of an Orlando marriage and family therapist for what the state agency is calling sexual misconduct. Health officials said Aldo Ivan Rodriguez inappropriately touched two patients while working as a senior
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Therapists revolt against psychiatry’s bible Salon.com
Mental health professionals say new diagnoses will lead to overmedication
Dec 27, 2011
By Rob Waters
Anyone who’s ever tried to get reimbursed by a health insurance company after seeing a psychiatrist or psychotherapist, or taking a child or teenager to one, has no doubt noticed the incomprehensible numbers that appear on the clinician’s statement, perhaps preceding
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Sexual Misconduct
Psychologist Michael Walczak license suspended over sex allegations Sun Sentinel
Margate psychologist’s license suspended over sexual relationship allegations
By Tonya Alanez
November 26, 2011
A Margate psychologist has had his license suspended and must undergo treatment as a result of allegations that he had an improper sexual relationship with the mother of a 16-year-old patient.
In May 2009, a Broward civil jury ordered that Dr. Michael Walczak pay
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Top Prescribers
Psychs Avoid Penalties in Suits Against Medical Firms ProPublica
Doctors Avoid Penalties in Suits Against Medical Firms
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein
Evidence sealed at settlement
For concerned outsiders, the whistle-blower suits are often troublingly vague. Many don’t provide enough specifics about physicians’ roles to assess their veracity. Some offer only worrisome hints of doctors’ misconduct.
But the case against Lilly and Florida psychiatrist George Jerusalem, unsealed
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