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Christopher Palacios, Mass. Psychiatrist, charged with pushing, kicking and sexually assaulting his wife

The Sun Chronicle Psychiatrist given board reprimand By David Linton January 15, 2015 Psychiatrist Christopher Palacios ATTLEBORO - A psychiatrist at Arbour-Fuller Hospital has been given a reprimand by the state Board of Registration in Medicine as a result of his arrest in 2012 on domestic assault charges. Dr. Christopher M. Palacios was arrested in 2012 following an altercation with his then wife, and subsequently admitted sufficient facts to charges of misdemeanor assault and battery in 2013. The charges were dismissed last year after Palacios completed a court-ordered anger management course, the board announced. The board reprimanded Palacios "for [...]

Claudio Dicovsky, NJ Psychiatrist, “Sentenced” to lame “house arrest” for accepting $200,000 in Bribes

Bergen Dispatch Fort Lee Psychiatrist Sentenced to One Year of House Arrest and Three Years' Probation By Staff January 05, 2015 Claudio Dicovsky, 52, of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a doctor with a practice in Paterson, New Jersey, was sentenced today to three years’ probation, which includes one year of house arrest with electronic monitoring, for accepting more than $200,000 in bribes from Parsippany, New Jersey-based Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS) as part of a long-running scheme operated by the lab, its president, and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Dicovsky previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge [...]

Francis Bostock, psychiatrist, billed medicare for sex with patient – Judge orders him to pay patient $400,000

Sydney Morning Herald Former psychiatrist Francis Bostock ordered to pay damages to patient he abused By Julia Medew December 16, 2014 16 Walpole Street, Kew, Victoria, Australia A former Melbourne psychiatrist who had sex with a patient for years and billed Medicare $16,000 for their time together has been ordered to pay the woman nearly $400,000 in damages. A Supreme Court judge recently heard former Kew psychiatrist Francis Tudor Bostock breached his duty of care by having sex with and sexually assaulting the woman over three-and-a-half years while she had depression. The patient first sought Dr Bostock's help in [...]

Colin Brewer, Psychiatrist, license was revoked, his clinic was a drug “grocery” where addicts could get any drug they wanted, Now He Admits to Killing 7 patients in Assisted Suicide, only one of which was terminally ill

Lifenews.com Psychiatrist Admits to Killing Seven Patients in Assisted Suicides, Just One Was Terminally Ill by Sarah Zagorski December 17, 2014 Psychiatrist Colin Brewer Eight years ago, psychiatrist Dr. Colin Brewer was removed from the United Kingdom’s medical register after he inappropriately prescribed drugs to his addictive patients, including heroin substitutes. In fact, in September 2001, one of Dr. Brewer’s patients, Grant Smith, 29, died after the psychiatrist gave him a home detox kit containing 16 drugs, including the tranquillisers diazepam and temazepam. When Dr. Brewer’s medical license was revoked, the NHS argued that his clinic had become a [...]

Pralay Mazumdar, psychiatrist, told patient she was sicker than she was to prolong her hospital stay

Herald Sun Suspended jail sentence for psychiatrist who defrauded WorkCover Rebecca David Dandenong Leader December 19, 2014 Psychiatrist Pralay Mazumdar A PSYCHIATRIST who told a patient she was sicker than she was to prolong her hospital stay has received a six-month suspended sentence. Pralay Mazumdar, 60, pleaded guilty to six charges under the Accident Compensation Act relating to dealings with patients at a Dandenong clinic between March 5, 2012, and September 9, 2013. The Glen Waverley man’s charges included fraudulently obtaining payments, knowingly providing false information and providing false information. Ringwood Magistrates’ Court this month heard Mazumdar, while dealing [...]

Indian Psychiatrists Protest the Arrests of Two of their Own – arrests “sent shockwaves in the entire psychiatry community”

Indian Express Psychiatrists protest arrest of two colleagues, stop prescribing drug to addicts By Raakhi Jagga December 23, 2014 Psychiatrists Protest the Arrest of Two of their Brethern Following the arrest of two psychiatrists on December 19, the Punjab and Chandigarh branch of Indian Psychiatric Society (PUNCIPS) has stopped prescribing buprenorphine drug which, as per doctors, is scientifically approved treatment worldwide for patients who are addicts of opium, smack or heroin or also called as opioid addicts. The same tablets were seized from the arrested doctors. Members of PUNCIPS maintained that even they were treating the addicts with the [...]

India Psychiatrists Threaten to Go on Strike over Arrests of 2 Psychiatrists. Cops say more arrests could happen

Times of India Psychiatrists to go on strike; cops suspect big drug racket By Aditi Gyanesh December 22, 2014 Jayaram S. - Indian Association of Private Psychiatry LUDHIANA: After procuring huge amounts of psychotropic pills from Dr Sudha Vasudev's private clinic at Mullanpur Dhaka and her residence at Rishi Nagar in Ludhiana on Saturday, the Jagraon police have said there is a big racket, and there could be other arrests soon. Meanwhile, functioning of psychiatry OPDs in hospitals, clinics and nursing homes in Punjab and Chandigarh would be hit on Monday as psychiatrists under Indian Psychiatry Society and Indian [...]

Duttala Reddy, Illinois Psychiatrist, had Sexual Misconduct with Suicidal Patient; Another Psychiatrist, Kripakaran Puvalai engaged in sexually inappropriate conduct with same patient at same clinic

State Journal Register Springfield psychiatrist suspended for ‘sexually inappropriate’ conduct By Dean Olsen January 1, 2015 Psychiatric Associates of Central Illinois1124 South Sixth Street, Springfield, Illinois A Springfield psychiatrist who took over the care of a female patient victimized by “sexually inappropriate” conduct at the hands of another psychiatrist in the same clinic was disciplined by the state this week for sexual misconduct with the patient. Officials from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation issued a temporary suspension of the license of Dr. Duttala Obula Reddy, a psychiatrist at Psychiatric Associates of Central Illinois, 1124 S. Sixth [...]

Patient Shocked Psychiatrist James Hanley is Still Practicing

Edmonton Journal Cold Lake psychiatrist’s former patient says he shouldn’t be in practice Doctor lost privileges in New Brunswick, Newfoundland By Marty Klinkenberg December 8, 2014 Psychiatrist James Hanley When Kathy Wiseman’s psychiatrist pleaded guilty to engaging in an inappropriate sexual relationship with her, she thought he would never practice medicine again. So Wiseman was shocked last week when she learned that Dr. James Bernard Hanley is working in Alberta. Stripped of licences in Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick in 2007 after admitting to the sexual relationship, Hanley was granted a medical licence by Alberta’s College of Physicians [...]