BIZARRE PSYCH NEWS
Peter Baumann, Swiss Psychiatrist, sentenced
Peter Baumann SWI Doctor sentenced over assisted suicides July 6, 2007 -- Excerpt Peter Baumann was given a three-year prison sentence, two years of which are suspended, by Basel criminal court on Friday. Switzerland has one of the most relaxed laws on assisted suicide in Europe, but calls have been mounting for the practice to be subject to more supervision. Swiss law tolerates assisted suicide where the act is committed by the patient and in which the helper, who might for example provide a needle of morphine and then leave the room, has no direct interest. Direct active euthanasia – [...]
Conrad Swartz, TOP Shock Psych, Threatens PsychSearch
Conrad Swartz (right) is one of two psychiatrists who are corporate officers of Somatics, LLC – “the leading manufacturer” of electroconvulsive machines worldwide. He ordered PsychSearch to "Cease and Desist". Start from the bottom. 🙂 Best Regards, Ken Kramer PsychSearch Make this psychiatrist complaint page well-known: https://www.psychsearch.net/complaints/ "It is a simple and deadly formula. Less steps than baking a cake." +++ From: PsychSearch Attorney Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 1:52 PM To: cswartz@siumed.edu Cc: PsychSearch Subject: Cartoon Dr. Swartz, I represent PsychSearch.net, and am responding to your email objecting to the caricature of you and your business partner, Richard [...]
Narendra Nagareddy, Georgia Psychiatrist, charged with Murder
Narendra Nagareddy Daily Mail Psychiatrist dubbed 'Dr Death' charged with three counts of murder and linked to the deaths of 36 patients after they 'overdosed on pills he prescribed' --Excerpt ...A psychiatrist has been dubbed 'Dr Death' after he was charged with the murder of three patients and linked to the deaths of 36 others after they all overdosed on medicine he prescribed. Dr Narendra Nagareddy is accused of regularly over-prescribing controlled substances to his patients in his Riverdale practice near Atlanta, Georgia, for more than three years. The 57-year-old, who became known as the go-to guy for prescription drugs [...]
Abbie Ewell, Dallas psychiatrist, arrested for assault, psych license suspended “poses a continuing threat to public welfare”
Texas Medical Board Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2, 2015 Media contact: Jarrett Schneider, 512-305-7018 Customer service: 512-305-7030 or 800-248-4062 TMB suspends Dallas physician On June 2, 2015, a disciplinary panel of the Texas Medical Board temporarily suspended, without notice, the Texas medical license of Abbie Ewell, M.D., after determining her continuation in the practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare. The suspension was effective immediately. The Board panel found that on May 6, 2015, the Board received an emergency referral from the Texas Physician Health Program (TXPHP) based on Dr. Ewell’s self-report of being unsafe [...]
Priscilla Sheldon-Cost, Baltimore psychiatrist, charged
Priscilla Sheldon-Cost Daily Mail Yale-educated addiction psychiatrist is charged with making and selling ecstasy with her boyfriend in basement lab --Excerpt Police in Maryland have charged three people in connection with manufacturing MDMA, commonly referred to as Molly or the drug ecstasy, including a doctor who has a long-standing history of drug problems. Baltimore County cops said a drug investigation led to a search warrant and the arrest of Dr. Priscilla Sheldon-Cost, 51, at a house in Towson... The Baltimore Sun reports that Sheldon-Cost was an addiction rehabilitation psychiatrist with a history of treatment for alcohol and drug abuse. Sheldon-Cost [...]
Joel Rice, Oregon Psychiatrist, sentenced for shooting cows
Capital Press Psychiatrist sentenced in cattle shooting --Excerpt LA GRANDE, Ore. — A psychiatrist from Eastern Oregon has pleaded guilty to seven counts of first degree animal abuse for shooting several cows last year. Joel Rice, 57, was sentenced to two days in jail and two years of probation, as well as $1,600 in fines and 369 hours of community service. As conditions of his probation, Rice must also build a corral on his property to hold trespassing cattle and rebuild a fence that separates his property from a neighbor’s. In August 2013, Rice shot seven cows that had wandered [...]
Jackson Dempsey, Oregon psychiatrist, sabotaged biking trails
The Columbian Psychiatrist who vandalized trails says he regrets actions, is building practice --Excerpt MEDFORD, Ore. — The former Jackson County psychiatrist who vandalized mountain biking trails in the Ashland watershed says he regrets his actions and is moving forward with a new psychiatry practice. Jackson Tyler Dempsey, 58, was charged in August 2012 with fourth-degree assault and two counts of recklessly endangering another person after he admitted to stringing nylon cord and laying nails and vegetation across trails in the Ashland watershed in summer 2012. Dempsey told a Forest Service arresting officer that he vandalized the trails because [...]
Ali Salim, Ohio Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Ali Salim The Columbus Dispatch Doctor sentenced to 36 years for killing pregnant woman --Excerpt DELAWARE, Ohio — A doctor who admitted to killing a pregnant woman and her unborn daughter in the summer of 2012 was sentenced today to serve 36 years and 4 months in prison. Ali Salim, 44, pleaded guilty in October to killing 23-year-old Deanna Ballman after she answered a Craigslist ad he’d placed for a prostitute. Ballman was nine months pregnant at the time of her death. Her unborn daughter, whom she’d planned to name Mabel, also was killed... Until his arrest, Salim was an [...]
Abhishek Shah, Connecticut Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Abhishek Shah Hartford Courant PSYCHIATRIST PLEADS NO CONTEST --Excerpt A psychiatrist accused of sexually assaulting a woman in West Hartford a year ago was sentenced to probation Monday after he pleaded no contest to reduced charges. Abhishek Shah, 32, who was a second-year general psychiatry resident at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington at the time, was sentenced in Superior Court to two years of probation. He pleaded no contest to charges of third-degree assault and second-degree unlawful restraint, both misdemeanors, minutes before his sentencing. His original charges were first-degree sexual assault, second-degree unlawful restraint, third-degree assault and [...]
David Israelstam, Wisconsin Psychiatrist, Sentenced
David Israelstam Channel3000 Madison psychiatrist sentenced for child porn possession --Excerpt A Madison psychiatrist will spend a year and a half behind bars for possession of child pornography as part of a plea deal. David Israelstam, 73, was also sentenced Thursday to three and a half years of extended supervision and seven years of probation after his time in prison. A criminal complaint said Madison police found several binders and at least 64 images of child porn in Israelstam’s home. He was arrested in February... While his attorneys said he was a sex addict, the prosecution argued he was a [...]