BIZARRE PSYCH NEWS
Puerto Rican Psychiatrist Gerardo V. Navarro Rodriguez Arrested for Child Sex Trafficking
elnuevodia.com Pediatric psychiatrist arrested for sexual abuse He faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison By Mariana Cobián / mariana.cobian @ gfrmedia.com Psychiatrist Gerardo V. Navarro Rodriguez The pediatric psychiatrist Gerardo V. Navarro Rodriguez, 59, was arrested yesterday for sexual transporting at least two males under 18 years, who were his patients. Yesterday agents of the Office of Internal Security Service of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE-HSI) arrested psychiatrist specializing in children and adolescents in their office in Caguas after one of the alleged injured, identified as John Doe # 1, a teacher recount what was happening [...]
Aussie Psychiatrist Robert Hampshire Has History of Bizarre Behavior – Now Blames Brain Swelling
Sydney Morning Herald Psychiatrist waits on medical tribunal to decide on complaints September 20, 2013 Psychiatrist Robert Hampshire Society psychiatrist Robert Hampshire has been accused of professional misconduct, practising without professional indemnity insurance and failing to meet strict conditions placed on his registration, including making daily visits to a doctor to ensure he was "fit to practise" before seeing patients. The accusations come almost 20 years after he was found guilty of professional misconduct in December 1994 for stealing prescription forms he then forged to feed his pethidine addiction. Struck off for two years, he was not allowed back [...]
Pregnant Doctor Labeled by Oregon Psychiatrist Howard Sampley – So She Sued him for $2 Million
The Register-Guard ER doctor sues psychiatrist By Greg Bolt Dec 31, 2013 Psychiatrist Howard Russell Sampley An emergency room doctor in Coos Bay is suing a Eugene psychiatrist for more than $2 million over an alleged misdiagnosis that required the doctor to temporarily withdraw from practicing medicine. The lawsuit filed by Dr. Susan Haney in Lane County Circuit Court accuses Dr. Howard Sampley of mistaking the side effects of a medication for a mental disorder and then reporting Haney to the state Medical Board. The board opened an investigation, and Haney agreed to withdraw from her medical practice while [...]
James Sutherland Watt, Sausalito Psychiatrist, arrested after authorities found a large quantity of LSD on his yacht
Independent Press Telegram (Long Beach, California) Court Action Faces Yank Smuggler VICTORIA, BC. (UPI) November 2, 1968 A California psychiatrist, arrested after authorities found a large quantity of LSD and methedrine about his yacht, appeared in Magistrate’s Court Friday on smuggling charges. Dr. James Sutherland Watt of Sausalito entered no plea to a charge of “unlawfully importing goods into Canada.” He was released in his own recognizance until Monday. Watt was arrested Oct. 24 when he docked his Seattle-registered yacht Navita for repairs after being blown off course during a storm near Cape Flattery. A royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman [...]
Harold Sleeper – Psychiatrist – Injected Wife with Urine
The Associated Press February 22, 1984 Jury Awards $6.5 Million to Psychiatrist's Ex-Wife Dateline: Oklahoma City A psychiatrist accused of subjecting his ex-wife to bizarre experiments, including injecting her with her own urine, has been ordered by a jury to pay her $6.5 million. Ann C. Sleeper's malpractice suit against Dr. Harold Sleeper, medical director of Willow View Hospital, a local private mental facility, alleged he injected her while treating her for a variety of physical and mental problems. Her attorneys also said Sleeper convinced his wife her severe depression, paranoia and physical problems were due to the foods she [...]
Chinese Psychiatrist Yang Yongxin accused of using shock treatment on “patients” with “internet addiction”
South China Morning Post Screams from ‘Room 13’: Are China’s kids being electroshocked for internet ‘addiction’? Distressed boy heard screaming for his mother from mental hospital notorious for controversial treatment Clinic was closed down in 2016 but online video ignites fears it has started up again October 25, 2018 Psychiatrist Yang Yongxin A psychiatric hospital in eastern China is being investigated for restarting a controversial internet addiction treatment after a video in which a boy can be heard screaming for his mother went viral on Weibo. Weibo user “IADSER” claimed to have shot the video from outside the hospital [...]
James Schaller, Florida Psychiatrist, Nationally known, pleads in gun threat case
Naples News Nationally known child psychiatrist pleads in gun threat case By Aisling Swift September 21, 2011 Psychiatrist James Schaller A nationally known Naples child psychiatrist who pointed a gun at his teenage son’s friend, then allegedly threatened his 15-year-old son, pleaded today to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to probation. Dr. James L. Schaller, 50, pleaded no contest to a third-degree felony involving a 14-year-old former neighbor as part of a plea deal that dropped a similar count involving his son, who had tried to intercede during an altercation on Jan. 2. The Daily [...]
Kernan Manion, North Carolina Psychiatrist, reported seeing people on the beach at night with red, green or white lights mounted on their heads.
Psychiatrist Kernan Manion BEFORE THE NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOARD In Re: Kernan T. Manion, M.D., Respondent. NOTICE OF CHARGES AND ALLEGATIONS; NOTICE OF HEARING The North Carolina Medical Board ("Board") has preferred and does hereby prefer the following charges and allegations: 1. The Board is a body duly organized under the laws of North Carolina and Chapter 90 of the North Carolina General Statutes. 2. Kernan Manion, M.D., ("Dr. Manion") is a physician first licensed by the Board on April 17, 2002, license number 200200407. 3. At the times relevant herein, Dr. Manion practiced medicine in Wilmington, North Carolina. [...]
Wagdy Botros, Kitchener Psychiatrist, license revoked – “History of Misconduct”
CBC Kitchener sleep doctor's license revoked by Ontario regulatory body September 25, 2018 Psychiatrist Wagdy Botros The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has revoked the licence of a Kitchener psychiatrist after he failed to co-operate with a multi-year investigation into his sleep medicine practice. Dr. Wagdy Abdalla Botros's certificate of registration was revoked on Sept. 21, 2018 and he was ordered to pay the college $39,948.71. Botros was the medical director of three privately-owned, publicly funded sleep clinics in Kitchener, Cambridge and London. All three clinics abruptly shut their doors in September 2017, leaving a sign on [...]
Ben Sessa, UK Child Psychiatrist, former raver and a club DJ, experimenting on subjects with Ecstasy
abc.net.au The hidden world of underground psychedelic psychotherapy in Australia By Jenny Valentish August 30, 2018 Child psychiatrist Ben Sessa John puts The Passion of the Christ soundtrack on the stereo and lies on the single bed in this Melbourne house. He's a 37-year-old engineer working in the renewable energy sector, and not at all savvy about street deals, so he bought his dose of cactus, which contains mescaline, on the dark web. He takes it without ceremony, then talks to his therapist about how he's been feeling. When he starts to feel a vague effect of the drug [...]