HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Maykel Luna, Psychiatrist – Performs Shock Treatment at Morton Plant Hospital
PsychSearch.net Yeah, They Still Do Shock Treatment By Ken Kramer May 12, 2015 Note: Saturday, May 16, 2015, is the international day of protest against shock treatment. There will be demonstrations protesting shock treatment in many cities around the world. Morton Plant Shock Treatment Psychiatrist Maykel Luna-Concepcion A couple of years ago PsychSearch received an encouraging tip that shock treatment was no longer used at Morton Plant hospital in Clearwater, Florida, where we are located. But we were dispirited when we heard from Elizabeth Hardy, Morton Plant's spokesperson. Her e-mail was short: "Electroconvulsive Therapy is offered at Morton [...]
Richard Miller – Psychiatrist blamed by Pinellas County Sheriff in Death of Inmate
Tampa Bay Times $1.15M PAYOUT IN JAIL DEATH By PATTY RYAN, TIMES STAFF WRITER July 9, 2014 The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office paid $1.15 million days ago to the estate of a mentally ill woman who died in 2009 after refusing food and medicine in the Pinellas County jail. The settlement ends all federal and state court claims against the jail and its employees by Michael DeGraw, whose late wife, Jennifer DeGraw, then 50, was found unresponsive in her cell on March 24, 2009, in a swill of cereal, bread and feces. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who inherited the [...]
Halifax Psychiatrist Curtis Steele license suspended – “made inappropriate sexual advances toward a male patient, using a dildo” – Has been a psychiatrist for 48 years
CBC News Halifax psychiatrist Dr. Curtis Steele's licence suspended Two civil lawsuits allege sexual misconduct By Blair Rhodes Dec 05, 2013 Psychiatrist Curtis Steele The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia has suspended a Halifax psychiatrist's licence to practice medicine after a complaint was laid against him. The decision against Dr. Curtis Steele was announced Thursday morning in a small newspaper advertisement and on the college's website. Dr. Gus Grant, the college registrar, said Steele's licence was suspended after someone laid a complaint against him. "At present there is one complaint against Dr. Steele," Grant told CBC [...]
Psychiatrist Chukwuma Igbokwe Faces License Revocation for Sexual Harassment, Exposed Himself to Hospital Administrator, Etc.
WalesOnline Doctor and ex-diplomat faces being struck off for sexually harassing colleague December 12, 2013 Psychiatrist Chukwuma Igbokwe The doctor was found to have grabbed his colleague from behind and asked her for sex 'over a desk' A doctor and former diplomat who flashed at a colleague during a two-year 'onslaught' of sexual harassment faces being struck off for bringing the profession into disrepute. Dr Chukwuma Igbokwe, 46, grabbed Vanessa Turley from behind and thrust himself towards her before exposing himself and asking her to perform a sex act, a tribunal ruled. The former Consul to the UK of [...]
New Zealand Psychiatrist Manilall Maharajh License Revoked – Sex with Patient – paid to keep her quiet
New Zealand Herald Psychiatrist punished over sex with vulnerable patient By Brendan Manning Nov 22, 2013 Psychiatrist Manilall Maharajh A psychiatrist who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient, and paid her tens of thousands of dollars to keep quiet about it has been stripped of his registration and ordered to pay more than $70,000. Dr Manilall Maharajh, whose name suppression has been lifted, was found guilty of professional misconduct by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal in September. In its just-released penalty decision, the tribunal said Dr Maharajh's conduct was serious enough to "warrant discipline for the purposes [...]
Psych’s Proposed Law Leaked in Australia – Allows Kids to Consent to Shock Treatment and Brain Surgery – Yo People Down Under! Take this OUT!
The Sunday Times (Australia) October 13, 2013 Kids get to choose MENTAL HEALTH LAWS LEAKED By SONIA KOHLBACHER CONTROVERSIAL laws that will allow teenagers to consent to electro-shock therapy and brain surgery will go ahead, a leaked WA Government memo reveals. A briefing for Mental Health Minister Helen Morton ahead of the Bill's introduction to parliament this week concedes new laws allowing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and psychosurgery to be performed on children without their parents' consent, subject to approval by a special medical tribunal, will polarise West Australians. ``Some stakeholders such as the Citizens' Commission on Human Rights (an organisation [...]
Illinois Psychiatrist Kripakaran Puvalai – Long History of Sexually Inappropriate Conduct
State Journal-Register Local psychiatrist suspended for "sexually inappropriate conduct" By Dean Olsen The State Journal-Register Oct 28, 2013 Office of Psychiatrist Kripakaran Puvalai State officials on Monday suspended the medical license of a Springfield psychiatrist suspected of flirting with and inappropriately touching six female patients between 2009 and 2013. The state isn’t alleging that Dr. Kripakaran Puvalai had sex with patients, but according to a complaint filed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Puvalai “engaged in a pattern of sexually inappropriate conduct and multiple physician-patient boundary violations with numerous patients of his psychiatric practice.” The complaint said [...]
Alabama Psychiatrist Mohammad Mohabbat Arrested – Sexual Abuse and Harassment of Patient
Tuscaloosa News Crime Beat Northport psychiatrist charged with sexual abuse Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 3:25 by crime.beat Psychiatrist Mohammad Mohabbat A Northport psychiatrist has been accused of sexual abuse against a patient. Dr. Mohammad Omar Mohabbat was charged with second-degree sexual abuse and harassment on Sept. 26. A grand jury indicted him that day after hearing evidence from an investigation conducted by the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit and other agencies, said homicide unit assistant commander Lt. Kip Hart. The investigation began after law enforcement received a complaint of improper conduct between Mohabbat and a patient. He was [...]
Psychs Lament Passing of TeenScreen
Psychiatrist David ShafferTeenScreen Creator Globe Gazette Officials lament program loss to screen for teen depression December 1, 2012 By Deb Nicklay MASON CITY — Local educators and mental health professionals say they are concerned that Teen Screen, a program that helped identify more than 400 North Iowa students grappling with issues of depression and suicide, will soon end. Columbia University, which developed the screening tool, will no longer allow use of the program after Dec. 14. It has been used in North Iowa since 2006, and conducted under the auspices of United Way of North Central Iowa. On Nov. [...]
Victim of psychiatrist’s testicle-zap therapy says pain excruciating
Lake Alice Mental Health Hospital www.nzherald.co.nz By Martin Johnston May 24, 2012 Zapping a teenage boy on the testicles with an electric shock machine because he was considered naughty was an act far outside normal practice, a medical academic told police. "In summary, Dr [Selwyn] Leeks' treatments appeared to depart significantly from the standards of the day," wrote Dr Garry Walter, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Sydney. "This was in the areas of his direct clinical care - including his method of use of electrical treatments, and his dubious reasons for some of [...]