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Queensland Psychiatrist offers own husband to patient for sex therapy
Queensland Psychiatrist Courier Mail Wacky sex therapy Shrink's hubby slept with patient By Kay Dibben August 15, 2020 -- Excerpt A PSYCHIATRIST who treated a female patient with sexual anxiety by getting her to have sex with her own husband — while she watched — has been fined $25,000. The doctor and her husband also had sex in front of the patient during the highly unconventional "sex therapy", a tribunal heard. The patient had previously lived with the psychiatrist and her husband as an au pair, and the two women later became friends. But it was during a therapeutic relationship, [...]
Prakash Bhatia, San Diego Psychiatrist, “Overprescribed”
Prakash Bhatia Press Release San Diego Psychiatrist Pays $145,000 to Resolve Opioid Overprescribing Investigation Thursday, April 30, 2020 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of California NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY – April 30, 2020 SAN DIEGO – San Diego area psychiatrist Prakash Bhatia, M.D., has paid $145,000 to resolve allegations that he overprescribed opioids. Dr. Bhatia previously owned and operated Progressive Health and Wellness in El Cajon, California, practicing pain medicine. The settlement stems from an investigation that the Drug Enforcement Administration initiated into whether Dr. Bhatia improperly prescribed opioids to his patients at Progressive Health and Wellness (PHW) [...]
Amina Rafi, UK psychiatrist, suspended after lying that she had cancer
Amina Rafi Daily Mail Doctor, 25, is suspended after lying that she had cancer to her bosses at Broadmoor Hospital where patients include the Yorkshire Ripper By Lara Keay December 12, 2019 -- Excerpt A junior doctor at Broadmoor Hospital who lied about having breast cancer has been banned from treating patients. Trainee psychiatrist Dr Amina Rafi, 25, told colleagues at the maximum security hospital she had the disease, was four years older than she was, and that she was a member of the Royal College of Physicians... At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester, she admitted dishonest [...]
Emad Bishai, Texas Psychiatrist, Arrested
Emad Bishai KHOU The Woodlands doctor arrested on charges related to 4 overdose deaths --Excerpt MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — A Montgomery County doctor has been suspended amid a slew of charges related to the overdose deaths of four patients. Emad Mikhail Tewfik Bishai's medical license was suspended "after determining his continuation in the practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare," according to the Texas Medical Board. Several warrants were issued for Bishai's arrest earlier this month. He's facing four felony charges of prescribing controlled substances for other than medical purposes and five felony counts of practicing medicine [...]
Pierre Maillou, Quebec psychiatrist, guilty
Pierre Maillou CBC Mailloux guilty: College of Physicians November 9, 2009 -- Excerpt Controversial Quebec radio host and psychiatrist Pierre (Doc) Mailloux has been found guilty of 13 charges related to his medical practice. A disciplinary committee found Mailloux guilty of misdiagnosing patients and prescribing large doses of two antipsychotic drugs. The Quebec College of Physicians ruled he made hasty diagnostic judgments which he failed to revise when patients began experiencing dangerous side-effects. The side-effects included respiratory problems, motor and vocal difficulties, anxiety, vomiting, heart palpitations and confusion... The outspoken psychiatrist had been taken to task previously for making [...]
William Vicary, LA Psychiatrist, surrenders license
William Vicary Los Angeles Times Psychiatrist who admitted altering notes in Menendez brothers’ murder trial in the ’90s surrenders license --Excerpt A psychiatrist who caused an uproar in the 1990s when he admitted altering clinical notes in the infamous Menendez brothers’ murder trial has agreed to surrender his medical license over new allegations of wrongdoing, according to the Medical Board of California. The decision, which became effective last month, came after the state accused Dr. William Vicary of gross negligence, repeated negligent acts, prescribing without an appropriate exam, excessive prescribing and inadequate record keeping. The complaint, filed in November 2017, [...]
James Ketchum, Psychiatrist – used LSD on Soldiers
James Ketchum Washington Post James Ketchum, who conducted mind-altering experiments on soldiers, dies at 87 By Harrison Smith June 4, 2019 -- Excerpt James S. Ketchum, an Army psychiatrist who studied the effects of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs on American soldiers, overseeing classified Cold War-era experiments that spurred a debate on medical ethics, died May 27 at his home in Peoria, Ariz. He was 87... ...initiatives were halted amid media reports and withering congressional hearings, during which the Edgewood project’s founder and director, Van Murray Sim, was criticized for failing to provide follow-up medical care for the 7,000 soldiers [...]
Psychiatrist Jane McLennan, Edinburgh, loses license
Psychiatrist Jane McLennan Edinburgh News Renowned Edinburgh psychiatrist struck off for ‘misleading and inaccurate’ patient report By The Newsroom March 21, 2019 -- Excerpt A RENOWNED psychiatrist has been struck off after a tribunal found she produced a “misleading and inaccurate” report on a patient involved in an unfair dismissal claim against the Ministry of Justice. Dr Jane McLennan, who was based at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, has had her name erased from the medical register after falsely claiming the man, known as ‘Mr A’, had cursed throughout the one hour 48 minute evaluation and told her that he kept [...]
Emily Lazarou, psychiatrist, “loose cannon”
Emily Lazarou Tampa Bay Times Pinellas judge: Controversial psychiatrist can testify in Jonchuck case By Dan Sullivan December 10, 2018 A forensic psychiatrist who has been criticized for being "biased and coercive" in her evaluations of criminal defendants will remain as an expert witness in the case of John Jonchuck, who is accused of dropping his 5-year-old daughter off a bridge. Over vocal objections from defense attorneys, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Christine Helinger said Monday there was no need for a hearing on whether to boot Dr. Emily Lazarou from the case. "What you're suggesting is that she's a horrible psychiatrist," [...]
Kurt Freund, Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund – Court Rules Psych’s Penis Measuring Treatment has “No Relation to Medical Treatment” and “No Evidence of any therapeutic benefit”
Appeals Court Rejects Arousal Test for Sex Offender BY TANYA CALDWELL JUNE 21, 2006 12 AM PT Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options TIMES STAFF WRITER A periodic test that measures a man’s response to erotic images is “Orwellian” because it examines his mind, not just his body, and should not be used because it deprives him of more freedom than necessary, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In order to be released from prison, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson had ruled in 2001, Matthew Weber would have to subject himself to tests in which a pressure-sensitive electronic device is [...]