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Adam Osborne, English psychiatrist, loses license (in England they say “struck off”) for affair with vulnerable patient – Osborne admitted threatening his patient after she reported him to the General Medical Council
BBC Adam Osborne struck off for affair with vulnerable patient February 11, 2016 Psychiatrist Adam Osborne has been struck off the medical register after having a two-year affair with a vulnerable patient. It follows a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruling that his fitness to practise had been impaired. The 39-year-old, who is the brother of Chancellor George Osborne, had admitted an inappropriate relationship with a patient. The tribunal ruled his behaviour was "profoundly unacceptable". Dr Osborne, who was married at the time, had been treating the woman - Patient A - for depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue at his private [...]
Minu Chopra, “well renowned” English Psychiatrist, Charged with Slavery of Nanny – Faces 14 years if Convicted
Express 'Upmarket' NHS psychiatrist and engineer husband charged with 'turning au pair into slave' By Rebecca Perring & Oli Smith February 16, 2016 Psychiatrist Minu Chopra (left) A PSYCHIATRIST and her marine engineer husband - who were described as a 'decent' young family from Rochdale - have been charged with turning their 'au pair' into a slave. A 28-year-old woman was found allegedly living as a slave, Greater Manchester Police said. Officers arrested arrested Minu and Sanjeev Chopra, both 47, woman on suspicion of slavery, servitude and forced labour offences under the Modern Slavery Act 2015 on Thursday. The [...]
Whitney Houghton, Maine Psychiatrist, Disciplined “after an independent expert found her recordkeeping and prescribing practices did not meet the accepted standard of care”
Bangor Daily News Brunswick psychiatrist disciplined By Beth Brogan February 17, 2016 BRUNSWICK, Maine — A Brunswick psychiatrist has been disciplined by the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine after an independent expert found her recordkeeping and prescribing practices did not meet the accepted standard of care. Dr. Whitney Houghton was placed on one year’s probation starting Wednesday, during which time she must transition to and maintain typewritten records that meet psychiatric standards, successfully complete a recordkeeping and charting course and provide records for the board to review, according to a release. In October 2015, Houghton completed a three-day psychopharmacology [...]
Nadir Omara, English Psychiatrist, Collapses in Court after being Convicted of Obscene Phone Calls
East Anglian Daily Times Suffolk doctor collapses in court after he is sent to prison By Chris Shimwell February 18, 2016 Nadir Omara, 48, of Sapling Place, Rushmere St Andrew, denied he drunkenly distressed two female colleagues at the Abbeycare addiction treatment centre, near Newmarket, with “sexually implicit” phone calls. However, the consultant psychiatrist was convicted on both counts of sending indecent communications at his trial in January. “The calls were overtly sexual and disturbing, with specific sexual language,” said chairman of the magistrates Stuart Roy yesterday, sentencing at Bury St Edmunds magistrates’ court. Upon hearing he would be jailed, [...]
Junaid Syed, St. Louis Psychiatrist, Chairman of psychiatry at St. Alexius Hospital, said the city wouldn’t approve permits and the community wouldn’t support his plan for a halfway house for federal prisoners – “The city is not helping me, nobody is helping me”
Post Dispatch Psychiatrist withdraws plan to open halfway house in south St. Louis January 28, 2016 By Jesse Bogan 2639 Miami Avenue, in south St. Louis ST. LOUIS • A psychiatrist who wanted to open a federal halfway house in south St. Louis said he withdrew his proposal after being served a tough lesson. "I have learned one thing about trying to develop a large business," said Dr. Junaid Syed. "The next time I am going to do business, I am going to do it in the county." Syed wanted to build a 161-bed halfway house, the largest of [...]
Patient Jane Doe Sues Ontario Sexual Predator Psychiatrist Stanley Dobrowolski, (and University where abuse occurred) who now resides in Federal Prison
London Free Press Disgraced doctor, Western sued by former student By Jane Sims, The London Free Press February 1, 2016 Psychiatrist Stanley Dobrowolski She wanted to be there when former London psychiatrist and sexual predator Stanley Dobrowolski was finally stripped of his medical licence, something many of his female patients believed should have happened decades earlier. The woman, 49, known as Jane Doe, was at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the governing body for Ontario doctors, in November to hear the details of the sexual violence inflicted by the disgraced ex-doctor on more than 40 of his patients, many [...]