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Michael Kessler, Penn. psychiatrist, hauled off to prison for child sex crimes
Pocono Record UNLAWFUL CONTACT WITH MINOR Cresco ex-psychiatrist caught 'grooming' boy on Facebook sentenced By Andrew Scott July 11, 2015 Psychiatrist Michael Kessler was sentenced to state prison for trying to lure a 13-year-old boy to meet him for sex A Monroe County mother's protective vigilance in monitoring her son's Facebook account is what likely spared him from being victimized by someone she and her family had known and trusted. "You messed with the wrong mother's child," she told former psychiatrist Michael Kessler, 45, of Cresco, in court Friday, shortly before Kessler was sentenced to 1½ to five [...]
Ong Ming Tan, Aussie psychiatrist, “highly devious”, jailed for inappropriately touching a group of young patients suffering from serious mental illnesses
Sydney Morning Herald Former patient of psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan tells of 'betrayal' By Paul Bibby July 12, 2015 Psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan One of seven women suing a North Shore medical clinic after they were indecently assaulted by its psychiatrist has described as "cruel" and "devastating" the facility's refusal to accept liability for what happened within its walls. Sixteen months after Ong Ming Tan was jailed for inappropriately touching a group of young patients suffering from serious mental illnesses, one victim has told Fairfax Media that the Greenwich based Northside clinic knew what was happening but failed to [...]
Gregg Hunter, Louisiana psychiatrist, wants license back after being suspended for rudeness, sexual misconduct and poor bedside manner
Louisiana Record Psychiatrist seeks reinstatement of license in suit against medical board June 8, 2015 By Local Labs News Service Practice address for Gregg Spaulding Hunter A doctor is suing a state medical board regarding a 2014 matter. Gregg Spaulding Hunter, a psychiatrist licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana, filed a lawsuit against The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana on May 29, citing civil rights violation. The suit states that the defendant issued a suspension of the plaintiff’s license on May 30, 2014, based on an alleged [...]
Avijit Mitra, psychiatrist at Connecticut Valley Psych Hospital, improperly prescribed drugs to himself, his wife and others
New Haven Register Hamden psychiatrist must hire monitor; Stamford psychiatrist fined By Kate Farrish May 19, 2015 Avijit Mitra "practices" at Connecticut Valley Psych Hospital The state Medical Examining Board placed the medical license of a Hamden psychiatrist on probation for a year Tuesday and ordered him to hire a psychiatrist to supervise his practice. The psychiatrist, Dr. Avijit Mitra, who has an office in Woodbridge, has already paid $55,000 in state and federal fines for improperly prescribing controlled substances to himself, his wife and others, state records show. At its meeting in Hartford Tuesday, the board also fined [...]
Lisa Perdue, Texas psychiatrist resigns from Terrell State Psych Hospital, after confronted with disciplinary action for taking $615,525 from drug company – Forbidden by state health code
Texas Tribune Terrell State Psychiatrists Resign After Accusations by Ryan McCrimmon April 17, 2015 Psychiatrist Lisa Perdue Terrell State Psych Hospital Two psychiatrists at Terrell State Hospital resigned this week after being told they would face disciplinary action for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a pharmaceutical company to promote the drug Seroquel, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. According to agency documents, Dr. Anthony Claxton, the hospital's clinical director, and Dr. Lisa Perdue, a psychiatrist, received large amounts of money from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to promote the company’s drugs to other doctors [...]
Gerardo Navarro Rodriguez, Puerto Rican Child Psychiatrist, Gets 15 years in Prison – transporting a minor for prostitution
Google translation: PrimeraHora.com Psychiatrist sentenced for abusing a minor Por Francisco Rodríguez-Burns May 7, 2015 Psychiatrist Gerardo Navarro Rodriguez Psychiatrist Gerardo Navarro Rodriguez was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison on the charge of transporting a minor for prostitution and criminal sexual conduct. Federal Judge Jay García Gregory issued the sentence, as suggested by a plea agreement for the accused, whose practice is focused on care for children and adolescents. "It's very difficult to stand here and look at the person who hurt me so deeply. Really do not know how there are people who abuse [...]
British psychiatrist Colin Brewer (revoked license) hired to sign off on suicides at Switzerland “suicide clinic”, which is facing a major criminal probe
Daily Mail Banned British doctor who approves Dignitas suicides secretly recorded advising how patients can 'pop their clogs' even when they are not terminally ill By Lucy Osborne and Katherine Faulkner and Paul Bentley May 29 2015 British psychiatrist Colin Brewer Dignitas is sending people who want to die to a banned British doctor for approval they need for an assisted suicide, the Mail can reveal. The clinic is telling patients to get a report from a controversial psychiatrist struck off nine years ago for serious misconduct. They say that Colin Brewer – who has helped at least 12 [...]
Muhammad Choudhry, psychiatrist, routinely billed for 20 hours per day, Ohio permanently revoked his license. Now Illinois is investigating him for providing group therapy sessions to more than 100 Medicaid patients every other day in 2010 and 2011
Reuters Banned from Medicare, still billing Medicaid By M.B. Pell and Kristina Cooke April 29, 2015 Psychiatrist Muhammad Choudhry NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO – A doctor who took kickbacks from a Pennsylvania hospice involved in a multimillion-dollar fraud. An Ohio psychiatrist who billed for treating no-show patients. A Georgia optometrist who claimed he conducted 177 eye exams in one day. Their transgressions vary. What these doctors have in common is that each was paid by a state Medicaid health insurance program after being kicked out of another state’s Medicaid system or the federal Medicare program. That’s not supposed to happen. [...]
Stephen Olson, Minnesota psychiatrist, Violated Patient Safety Procedures during drug trials
Minnesota Public Radio News Review finds U of M psychiatry researcher violated patient safety procedures By Alex Friedrich May 15, 2015 Psychiatrist Stephen Olson An outside review commissioned by the University of Minnesota has found a university psychiatry researcher made three safety procedure violations during a 2007 study — two of them serious. The report by FTI Consulting, released Friday, says Dr. Stephen Olson failed to give a research subject important information about a drug he was taking. Olson and his team also inappropriately prepped the patient for the study before he agreed to participate. But the FTI Consulting [...]
Andrew Leggett, Psychiatrist Down Under, “Patient Pressured Him Into Sex”; Medical Board wanted him suspended but Judge worried about maintaining public confidence in psychiatrists
The Courier-Mail Psychiatrist claims patient pressured him into having sex By Vanda Carson May 19, 2015 Psychiatrist Andrew Leggett A VETERAN psychiatrist given a slap on the wrist for having sex with a depressed former patient says she propositioned him for sex during therapy. Andrew Alfred George Leggett, who currently works in a private practice in South Brisbane, said his patient transferred her “erotic feelings” to him. Dr Leggett today appeared before the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal where he admitted he was wrong to have sex with the woman who was suffering from chronic depression. Dr Leggett has [...]