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Mohamad Och, Worcester psychiatrist, sentenced
Mohamad Och PRESS RELEASE Worcester Psychiatrist Sentenced for Unlawful Distribution of Controlled Substances Thursday, July 31, 2025 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts Defendant prescribed combinations of highly addictive benzodiazepines and stimulants BOSTON – A Worcester psychiatrist was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally prescribing controlled substances. Mohamad Och, 69, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Margaret R. Guzman to four years of probation and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine. In November 2023, Och was convicted following an 11-day jury trial of three counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance. Och [...]
Henri Brunner, Strasbourg psychiatrist, struck off
Google translation Henri Brunner ICI Strasbourg: Expert psychiatrist Henri Brunner struck off by the Medical Council By Sarah Saltiel-Ragot January 10, 2025 -- Excerpt The expert psychiatrist Henri Brunner was the subject of seven complaints, accused of "rushed" examinations, "humiliating" remarks, a lack of impartiality, and breaches of professional confidentiality. After initially sanctioning him, the Medical Council ultimately decided to strike him off the register. The decision by the Medical Council was highly anticipated and was made public this Friday, January 10th: Dr. Henri Brunner has finally been struck off the register. This decision comes after two previous sanctions against [...]
Barbara Orrok, Connecticut psychiatrist, fined
Barbara Orrok -- EXCERPT CT INSIDER CT medical board ... fines psychiatrist $10K for neglect By Lisa Backus June 18, 2024 The state Medical Examining Board agreed Tuesday to issue a $10,000 fine to a psychiatrist accused of failing to properly monitor a patient for years... The board issued a $10,000 fine to Dr. Barbara Orrok, a psychiatrist with Fair Haven Community Health Center after a state Department of Public Health investigation confirmed that she had not adequately monitored a patient from 2015 to 2021, according to documents. Orrok failed to adequately maintain medical records on the patient, failed to [...]
Donna Dryer, Cortes Island Psychiatrist, resigns
Donna Dryer CBC B.C. psychiatrist resigns licence after patient complains of abuse during psychedelic therapy study By Bethany Lindsay October 16, 2023 -- Excerpt A B.C. psychiatrist has permanently relinquished her medical licence in response to a complaint about her treatment of a PTSD patient taking part in a clinical trial for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, CBC News has learned. Donna Dryer of Cortes Island irrevocably resigned her registration on Aug. 1 and received a formal reprimand after admitting to unprofessional conduct with the female patient, according to a letter from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. (CPSBC) to the [...]
Nuwan Galappathie, Birmingham psychiatrist, slammed
Daily Mail EXCLUSIVE - Psychiatrist is slammed by immigration tribunal for saying that a man who appealed against his deportation to Cameroon after raping his own daughter does not display 'distorted sexual attitudes towards children' By Sarah Limbrick September 12, 2023 -- Excerpt An eminent consultant psychiatrist has been slammed by an immigration tribunal for concluding an African man who raped his own daughter does not display 'distorted sexual attitudes towards children'. The twisted father was appealing against deportation to Cameroon on human rights grounds after serving an 18-year sentence for the harrowing ordeal he subjected his little girl to [...]
Andrew McFarland, Illinois Psychiatrist, used torturous treatment
Andrew McFarland Capitol News Illinois 160 years later, activist Elizabeth Packard honored in place of abusive psychiatrist she exposed By Jerry Nowicki and Molly Parker August 9, 2023 Elizabeth Packard In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for, in part, publicly disagreeing with his positions on religion, women’s rights and slavery. She remained there for more than three years under the care of a psychiatrist who used torturous treatment methods likened to waterboarding, and who collaborated in the imprisonment [...]
Scott Woodside, Ontario psychiatrist, “too biased to give evidence”
thestar.com Leading Ontario forensic psychiatrist too biased to give evidence, 'cut and pasted' opinions, judge finds June 13, 2023 By Betsy Powell -- Excerpt The professional credibility of one of Ontario's leading forensic psychiatrists has been called into question by a judge who took the unusual step of refusing to qualify him as an expert, finding him too biased to give evidence. The recent decision by Superior Court Justice Laura Bird - who concluded Toronto's Dr. Scott Woodside "cut and pasted" and made numerous errors in reports filed with the court - has sent shock waves through the criminal [...]
Howard Weiss, Greenwood Village Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Howard Weiss Press Release Greenwood Village Psychiatrist Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Distribution of Controlled Substances and Financial Crimes Thursday, June 8, 2023 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Colorado DENVER – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Howard Weiss of Greenwood Village was sentenced to six months in federal prison for distributing a controlled substance outside the usual course of professional practice, for structuring financial transactions in a way to evade reporting requirements, and for engaging in monetary transactions greater than $10,000 that were derived from unlawful activity. After his custodial sentence, [...]
PEI Psychiatrist Arvind Singh, focus of a 10-day hearing
PEI Psychiatrist Arvind Singh CBC Summerside psychiatrist disciplined over care of young patient By Carolyn Ryan March 08, 2023 -- Excerpt A College of Physicians and Surgeons of P.E.I. committee has found a Summerside psychiatrist guilty of professional misconduct, after a hearing in late January. The college says Dr. Arvind Singh engaged in "conduct or an act relevant to the practice of medicine that, having regard to the circumstances, would reasonably be regarded by medical practitioners as unprofessional." The identities of three people complaining about Arvind's behaviour, one of whom was a patient, was not revealed in documents filed on [...]
Karen Zelas, NZ psychiatrist – her “evidence lacked balance”
Karen Zelas nzherald.co.nz Peter Ellis: Convictions posthumously quashed in landmark Supreme Court decision By Hazel Osborne October 6, 2022 -- Excerpt ... In the justices' decision, read out via livestream from the court in Wellington at 2pm, they found that some evidence at Ellis' trial was unfair and should not have been admitted. This included the evidence of the Crown's expert witness, psychiatrist Dr Karen Zelas, under section 23G of the Evidence Act 1908. Zelas gave evidence that the parents who accused Ellis of abusing seven children reported behaviour that Zelas said was consistent with sexually abused children. They [...]