MEDIA
Khaja Chisty, Colorado Psychiatrist, AGREES TO CEASE “PRACTICE” – WHILE OUT OF THE COUNTRY HE USED VIDEOCONFERENCING & THE INTERNET WITHOUT GIVING PATIENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONSENT TO SUCH “TREATMENT” METHOD
The Denver Post Colorado doctor has license suspended; two agree to cease practices By Kieran Nicholson December 21, 2016 1700 W 100TH AVE STE 101THORNTON, CO The medical license of one doctor has been suspended, and two other doctors have agreed to cease practice in cases before the Colorado Medical Board. The Colorado license of Dr. Michael J. Brazelton has been suspended, and the board has issued cessation-of-practice agreements to Dr. Khaja N. Chisty and Dr. Charles F. Clark. ... Chisty, a psychiatrist, had been summarily suspended Nov. 18 for violations of the Medical Practice Act. The action against [...]
Philip Bird
Psychiatrist warned over prescribed drugs before fatal crash Vanda Carson A MAROOCHYDORE psychiatrist who prescribed “kiddie speed” and other drugs to a driver who crashed and killed twin girls and their grandmother was forewarned that “someone will be killed”. Four years before the tragedy the wife of a patient wrote Dr Philip Bird a letter warning that an innocent motorist or passenger could die. The woman told Dr Bird that when her 59-year-old engineer husband took the “kiddie speed” drug dexamphetamine prescribed to him by Dr Bird, he drove at “speeds like he is on a racetrack and takes enormous [...]
U.S. Senator says Psychiatrist “has no business treating our nation’s veterans or any citizen in Wisconsin”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Fired Tomah VA chief to surrender medical license Bill Glauber and Daniel Bice January 18, 2017 Senator Tammy Baldwin The psychiatrist at the center of an opioid scandal at the troubled Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center has agreed to surrender his medical license, under an agreement reached Wednesday with state regulators. Under the deal, David J. Houlihan agreed never to apply for a medical license in the state, in exchange for state regulators dropping their investigation into his actions at Tomah and not seeking reimbursement for the probe. Houlihan has 30 days to wrap up his [...]
Gerald Powell, Ottawa psychiatrist – incompetent per Discipline Committee
Ottawa Sun Ottawa psychiatrist faces new disciplinary hearing in January after prior suspension By Don Butler December 28, 2016 339 Gilmour St., Ottawa, ON, Canada Ottawa psychiatrist Gerald Powell is facing another hearing next month before the discipline committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, less than three years after his licence was suspended for nine months for romantic relationships with two former patients. At the Jan. 10 hearing, Powell will face allegations from the college’s inquiries, complaints and reports committee that he engaged in “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct” with respect to boundary issues with [...]
Japan to Punish 95 Psychiatrists for Illegally Obtaining Licenses – Many of the psychiatrists include heads of hospital psychiatric departments and owners of clinics
The Mainichi Ministry to punish 95 doctors over illicit acquisition of designated psychiatrist's licenses December 31, 2016 (Mainichi Japan) Japanese version Executives of St. Marianna University School of Medicine Hospital bow in apology during a news conference in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 15. (The Asahi Shimbun) The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is expected to punish 95 doctors for illicitly obtaining and helping others obtain specially designated psychiatrist's licenses, and temporarily suspend most of them from practicing medicine in a move that could adversely affect regional health services. Eighty-nine of the doctors had their specially designated psychiatrist's [...]
Kenneth Pages
Numbers show link between drug company payments and how doctors write prescriptions Kathleen McGroryKathleen McGrory, Times Staff Writer March 17, 2016 Excerpt: ProPublica, based in New York City, describes itself as "an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest." Its analysis looked at about 150,000 doctors in five specialties: cardiovascular disease, family medicine, internal medicine, ophthalmology and psychiatry. More than 9,400 Florida doctors were included. Overall, the analysis found that doctors who received any type of compensation from the industry — even meals alone — were at least two times as likely to prescribe brand-name drugs [...]
London (Canada) Psychiatrist Stanley Dobrowolski, Convicted Sex Offender, Now out on the Street
London Free Press Abusive ex-doc gets parole; Stanley Dobrowolski, jailed for 18 voyeurism, assault convictions in 2014, granted release from prison last month January 6, 2017 Psychiatrist - Stanley Dobrowolski The sex offending, disgraced former London psychiatrist Stanley Dobrowolski is out of prison and on parole. Parole documents show after serving more than half of his four-year sentence behind bars, Dobrowolski was granted statutory release Dec. 21. As part of his release, he's prohibited from having any contact with his victims or their families, giving medical or psychiatric advice and having or accessing pornography. His release comes six months [...]
Perth Child Psychiatrist guilty of filming boys at urinals
PerthNow Perth child psychiatrist Aaron Voon admits to child pornography charges December 1, 2016 Perth child psychiatrist Aaron Voon A PERTH child psychiatrist arrested in Canada in May accused of filming a boy in a public toilet has pleaded guilty to a string of child pornography charges. Dr Aaron Szen Yang Voon, 41, pleaded guilty in Perth Magistrates Court to nine separate charges, including filming boys at urinals and producing and possessing child pornography material in four countries: Canada, the US, New Zealand and Australia. He replied "guilty, your honour" nine times as magistrate Joe Chicchini read out charges [...]
Josip Pasic, Chicago Psychiatrist – License Suspended – Overprescribed Drugs and Sexually Molested Patients
abc7chicago.com REGULATORS: DOCTOR MOLESTED PATIENTS, OVERPRESCRIBED DRUGS December 15, 2016 CHICAGO -- Regulators on Wednesday suspended the license of a Chicago psychiatrist accused of overprescribing narcotics and sexually molesting mentally ill patients. Dr. Josip Pasic engaged in sexual conduct with mentally ill patients to whom he also prescribed opioid painkillers and other drugs, according to an emergency order signed by Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation's acting director, Jessica Baer. One patient, a recovering drug addict, told investigators he endured the doctor touching his groin because he needed his medication and it was difficult to find a doctor who [...]
Delia Podea, Romanian Psychiatrist, detained for 24 hours for bribery, forgery, and abuse of office
Romania-Insider.com New scandal in the Romanian health sector: Psychiatrists accused of using patients as guinea pigs By Irina Popescu June 1, 2016 Psychiatrist Delia Podea The Romanian authorities discover new problems in the local health sector each day. After the huge scandal around the diluted disinfectants used din hospitals for years and the case in which 77 oncologists have been charged with bribery, the prosecutors now investigate dozens of psychiatrists who allegedly used patients as guinea pigs. More than 250 patients admitted to hospitals and medical centers from nearly half of the country allegedly have become victims of the [...]