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Deborah Staite, UK Psychiatrist, drunk driver

Deborah Staite Daily Mail Psychiatrist who was in rush-hour car crash after drinking three bottles of wine is allowed to keep her job --Excerpt A psychiatrist who downed three bottles of wine before a head-on crash has been allowed to keep her job after she was deemed 'no risk' to patients. Dr Deborah Staite, 50, was uninsured and did not even have a driving licence at the time of the collision in 2020. She had failed to renew it after serving a previous ban for drink-driving, a tribunal heard... Excerpted from: Psychiatrist who was in rush-hour car crash after drinking [...]

Boris Rubinstein, Westchester County child psychiatrist, sued

Boris Rubinstein New York Post Westchester County shrink ruined family relationships, suit claims By Melissa Klein and Kathianne Boniello January 1, 2022 -- Excerpt A psychiatrist who treated his friends’ son for 20 years soured the man’s relationship with his parents and ruined his inheritance, a new lawsuit charges. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx began seeing Dr. Boris Rubinstein, a Westchester County child psychiatrist, in 1999 when he was 36 to treat depression. Rubinstein and Xxxxxx’s mother grew up together in Mexico, and the doctor socialized with Xxxxxx’s father, according to the $1 million suit filed in November in federal court [...]

Justin Acho, Nigerian Psychiatrist, slammed for defamation

Justin Acho Daily Post Court slams N2.5m on four Enugu consultant psychiatrists for defaming nurse December 12, 2021 By Emmanuel Uzodinma -- Excerpt An Enugu State High Court presided over Justice E. M. Egumgbe has awarded N2.5m (Two million, five hundred thousand) cost against four consultant psychiatric doctors working with the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu over defamation of Character of a senior nurse of the health institution, Mr. Afam Ndu. The court ordered the doctors, namely, Ubochi Vincent, Unaogu Ngozi, Justin Acho and Ugwuonye Onyekachi who were defendants in the defamation case brought before it by Mr. Ndu, to pay [...]

Unaogu Ngozi, Nigerian Psychiatrist, slammed for defamation

Unaogu Ngozi Daily Post Court slams N2.5m on four Enugu consultant psychiatrists for defaming nurse December 12, 2021 By Emmanuel Uzodinma -- Excerpt An Enugu State High Court presided over Justice E. M. Egumgbe has awarded N2.5m (Two million, five hundred thousand) cost against four consultant psychiatric doctors working with the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu over defamation of Character of a senior nurse of the health institution, Mr. Afam Ndu. The court ordered the doctors, namely, Ubochi Vincent, Unaogu Ngozi, Justin Acho and Ugwuonye Onyekachi who were defendants in the defamation case brought before it by Mr. Ndu, to pay [...]

Ubochi Vincent, Nigerian Psychiatrist, slammed for defamation

Ubochi Vincent Daily Post Court slams N2.5m on four Enugu consultant psychiatrists for defaming nurse December 12, 2021 By Emmanuel Uzodinma -- Excerpt An Enugu State High Court presided over Justice E. M. Egumgbe has awarded N2.5m (Two million, five hundred thousand) cost against four consultant psychiatric doctors working with the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu over defamation of Character of a senior nurse of the health institution, Mr. Afam Ndu. The court ordered the doctors, namely, Ubochi Vincent, Unaogu Ngozi, Justin Acho and Ugwuonye Onyekachi who were defendants in the defamation case brought before it by Mr. Ndu, to [...]

Ugwuonye Onyekachi, Nigerian Psychiatrist, slammed for defamation

Ugwuonye Onyekachi Daily Post Court slams N2.5m on four Enugu consultant psychiatrists for defaming nurse December 12, 2021 By Emmanuel Uzodinma -- Excerpt An Enugu State High Court presided over Justice E. M. Egumgbe has awarded N2.5m (Two million, five hundred thousand) cost against four consultant psychiatric doctors working with the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu over defamation of Character of a senior nurse of the health institution, Mr. Afam Ndu. The court ordered the doctors, namely, Ubochi Vincent, Unaogu Ngozi, Justin Acho and Ugwuonye Onyekachi who were defendants in the defamation case brought before it by Mr. Ndu, to pay [...]

Babak Akbari, Queensland psychiatrist, fired from Mackay Base Hospital

Babak Akbari Brisbane Times Sacked psychiatrist tries to sue Qld hospital after six-page complaint By Toby Crockford May 28, 2021 -- Excerpt A sacked Queensland psychiatrist tried to launch a defamation case against the hospital where junior doctors had written a six-page letter of complaint about him. Dr Babak Akbari was fired from Mackay Base Hospital, on the state’s central coast, in March 2019. He then tried to file a defamation case against the Mackay Hospital and Health Service and Dr Paul Henderson, who had made the decision to terminate Dr Akbari’s employment at the hospital and who referred him [...]

James Rodney, Brisbane psychiatrist, disciplined over wills – fined

James Rodney The Courier Mail (Australia) Psychiatrist and UQ lecturer Dr James Rodney fined after writing himself into patients’ wills September 19, 2021 -- Excerpt A BRISBANE psychiatrist with "a distinguished career", who became a beneficiary in the wills of an elderly ex-patient and her sister, has been reprimanded for professional misconduct. Dr James Maurice John Rodney was fined $30,000 by a tribunal and ordered to pay $75,000 to the Health Ombudsman, for their costs in bringing disciplinary proceedings against him. Dr Rodney, 72, who has been a psychiatrist for 48 years, is director of a mood disorder unit at [...]

Mansur Butt, Warrington Psychiatrist, found with animal porn on his phone

Mansur Butt Daily Mail NHS psychiatrist, 49, who was found with animal porn on his phone avoids being struck off after GMC accepted he was viewing it to research his patients' 'sexual perversions' -- Excerpt An NHS psychiatrist who watched sickening and illegal pornography featuring animals has been allowed to carry on treating vulnerable patients. Dr Mansur Butt, 49, from Warrington, admitted having bestiality material on his phones but said he only watched it because he was interested in his patients’ perversions and not for his own sexual pleasure. A full GMC ruled that the behaviour of the doctor, who [...]

Aruna Khilanani, NYC shrink, talked about shooting white people

Aruna Khilanani New York Post NYC shrink who talked about shooting white people now says they are ‘psychopathic’ By Samuel Chamberlain June 18, 2021 -- Excerpt The New York City psychiatrist who stunned a Yale School of Medicine audience in April when she revealed her fantasies of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way” characterized white people as “psychopathic” Thursday in an interview with disgraced former CNN pundit Marc Lamont Hill. Dr. Aruna Khilanani — who also revealed in her talk at Yale’s Child Study Center April 6 that white people “make [...]

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