BIZARRE PSYCH NEWS
Ovais Badat, leading UK psychiatrist, convicted – gave patient champagne and cocaine in hotel room – she relapsed into drug use
Bristol Post Leading Bristol consultant psychiatrist gave woman patient champagne and cocaine in hotel room By Geoffrey Bennett October 2, 2017 Psychiatrist Ovais Badat One of the UK’s top consultant psychiatrists faces jail term after being convicted of supplying a Class A drug. Dr Ovais Badat worked at the Hengrove-based adult ADHD service of Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. But the outwardly respectable medical professional hid a dark secret – he was supplying cocaine and making out false prescriptions to get his hands on more substances. Badat, of Hopewell Street, Tetbury, denied all wrongdoing when he [...]
Omesh Chandra Kashyap, 85-year-old Psychiatrist, Wanted in Canada
news18.com SC Stays Extradition of 85-year-old Psychiatrist Wanted in Canada By Utkarsh Anand September 21, 2017 SC Stays Extradition of 85-year-old Psychiatrist Wanted in Canada File photo of the Supreme Court of India. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed the extradition of an 85-year-old Indian-origin man, who has been charged in four cases of molestation and sexual assault in Canada and allegedly fled the country to thwart prosecution. Omesh Chandra Kashyap has, however, refuted all the charges saying he was being framed because he, as a renowned psychiatrist, had helped expose a scandal on sexual abuse of children by [...]
Robert Hampshire, Aussie psychiatrist, “a risk to the health and safety of the public”
Sydney Morning Herald Society shrink Dr Robert Hampshire's career in tatters over lewd calls By Kate McClymont October 2, 2017 Psychiatrist Robert Hampshire The colourful career of society shrink Dr Robert Hampshire appears to be all but over after he was caught sending lewd late-night texts to a client following a day of drinking. On Friday the psychiatrist lost his appeal to be allowed to continue practising while he waits a full hearing of the matter. In refusing to lift his suspension, Acting Judge Frank Marks of the Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that Dr Hampshire represented "a risk [...]
Aussie Psych Aaron Voon Sentenced for filming little boys in public toilets
ABC Online Child psychiatrist Aaron Voon gets suspended sentence for filming boys in public toilets By Emily Piesse September 8, 2017 Psychiatrist Aaron-Szen-Voon ignores questions from reporter A West Australian child psychiatrist who made indecent recordings of children in Perth and overseas has received a suspended jail term of 18 months. Aaron Voon, 42, was arrested in Perth last year, after returning from a trip to Edmonton, Canada, where he had been caught using his mobile phone to film a young boy in a public toilet. Voon was later charged in relation to similar recordings made in Perth and [...]
Ian De Saxe, Sydney Psychiatrist – guilty of misconduct in relation to three patients
Daily Mail Sydney psychiatrist suspended over telling an accused paedophile having sex with an underage boy 'wasn't that bad' and that he was 'willing to lie for him' after asking him for oral sex By Australian Associated Press September 12, 2017 Psychiatrist Ian De Saxe A Sydney psychiatrist has been suspended for misconduct including telling an alleged child sex offender 'in other countries it is legal' and 'back in Greek times it was OK'. Dr Ian De Saxe also was found to have told the patient: 'I'm willing to lie for you and willing to write you a [...]
Spokane Psychologists James Mitchell & Bruce Jessen to face torture trial in CIA waterboarding
RT Contractors who created CIA’s torture program will face trial by jury August 9, 2017 Psychologists James Mitchell (left) and Bruce Jessen (right) The case against two psychologists who were paid over $80 million to devise the CIA’s torture program under the Bush administration will go to trial, after a federal judge in Spokane, Washington, denied their request to throw the lawsuit out. A jury will hear the lawsuit, Salim v. Mitchell, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three former detainees against James Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, US District Judge Justice Quackenbush said [...]
J. Patrick Bertroche, Iowa Psychiatrist, Fined for Pre-Signing Blank Prescription Orders
Des Moines Register Psychiatrist fined $5,000 for pre-signing prescriptions for his staff to fill out later By Tony Leys July 27, 2017 Psychiatrist J. Patrick Bertroche A longtime Des Moines psychiatrist has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine after being accused of pre-signing blank prescription orders for his staff to fill out later. J. Patrick Bertroche, 50, agreed to pay the fine to settle an administrative charge from the Iowa Board of Medicine, documents released Wednesday show. He also agreed to take an ethics course from a training program in Colorado. Bertroche told state investigators the pre-signed prescriptions were [...]
RK Brahma, Indian Psychiatrist, arrested for death of patient
The Times of India Psychiatrist arrested for death of patient By Tamaghna Banerjee July 18, 2017 KOLKATA: A 67-year-old psychiatrist in Salt Lake was arrested and sent to jail for 14 days on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder of a middle aged automobile engineer who was undergoing treatment at his nursing home for a month and was found dead with multiple injuries on his body on May this year. The doctor, RK Brahma, the director of the nursing home, had issued his death certificate claiming the engineer had died of "acute myocardial infection" on May 20. However, [...]
California Psychiatrist Michael Vivian throws in the towel
Ventura Star Ventura psychiatrist surrenders medical license By Tom Kisken July 12, 2017 Psychiatrist Michael Vivian A Ventura psychiatrist accused of violating his medical probation surrendered the license that allowed him to practice as a doctor in California, regulators said. Dr. Michael Vivian was placed on five years probation by the Medical Board of California last year after being accused of using amphetamines in his office, including a 2014 incident when he was allegedly found passed out. He entered a drug treatment program later that year. In October last year, the board issued an order to stop Vivian’s medical [...]
Rajesh Jain, UK Psychiatrist, allegedly made inappropriate comments which left patients in shock or in tears
Daily Mail Psychiatrist 'rubbed his thighs, licked his lips and darted his tongue in and out as he grilled patient over her sex life' By Paddy Dinham July 13, 2017 Psychiatrist Rajesh Jain A psychiatrist rubbed his thighs and licked his lips as he counselled a woman over her love life during a series of sexually-charged consultations with vulnerable patients, a medical tribunal heard today. Dr Rajesh Jain, 46, pulled his chair up close to the patient, sat with his legs open and stared at her intently as he asked her if she had frequent sex with her boyfriend, [...]