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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 [...]
Debra Koss, NJ Psychiatrist vs. NJ Psychologists – A Fight to Drug More People
nj.com N.J. psychiatrists launch website to defeat bill giving psychologists Rx rights By Susan K. Livio December 05, 2014 Psychiatrist Debra Koss TRENTON — Psychiatrists in New Jersey have launched an online campaign they hope will torpedo “risky” legislation that gives psychologists the authority to write prescriptions. The New Jersey Psychiatric Association unveiled a new website, ProtectNJpatients.com, that explains why the state legislature, the governor and the public should oppose the bill that passed the Assembly in June. While psychologists “are a very important part of New Jersey’s healthcare infrastructure,” they don’t have the education, training and supervision of [...]
Shubu Ghosh, psychiatrist, guilty in Medicaid Fraud Case
Psychiatrist - Shubhranjan Ghosh KTUU, Channel 2 Anchorage psychiatrist changed plea in Medicaid fraud case KTUU Staff December 01, 2014 ANCHORAGE - An Anchorage psychiatrist changed his plea today in a case of fraudulently billing Medicaid and tampering with evidence. In this story: -- Dr. Shubu Ghosh, pleaded guilty to billing Medicaid more than $1 million for services he never performed. -- Dr. Ghosh said he was guilty for falsifying records in an attempt to cover up the improper billing. -- Ghosh founded Ghosh Psychiatrict Services and was arrested in April of this year. -- His sentencing is [...]
Europe’s Oldest Psych Hospital
Europe's Oldest Psych Hospital The Viennese slang "Gugelhupf" (a type of round cake) is a word used to describe mental asylums and psychiatric clinics. The source of this word is this building's round shape. I wonder if that's the source of the English term "spinbin" (a residential facility for psych treatment) Wikipedia The Narrenturm (Fool's Tower) in Vienna is continental Europe's oldest building for the accommodation of mental patients.[1] Built in 1784, it is next to the site of the old Vienna General Hospital (today a university campus), and is now home to the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum Vienna [...]
James Hanley, psychiatrist, license revoked for sexual misconduct in 2 provinces, but Alberta issues him another
CBC News Psychiatrist who lost licence in N.B., NL, practising in Alberta Dr. James Hanley, who admitted having sex with patient, working at CFB Cold Lake By Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon December 2, 2014 A psychiatrist who was stripped of his medical licences in both New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador in 2007 after he admitted to having sex with a patient is now practising in Alberta, CBC News has learned. Dr. James Bernard Hanley, 72, who used to work with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in Oromocoto, N.B., is working at 4 Wing CFB Cold [...]
Psychiatrists’ Infighting
Psychiatrist Keith Ablow Excerpts from below article: Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of psychiatry at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, said Ablow seems more interested in entertaining than in reflecting well on his profession. Lieberman is past president of the American Psychiatric Association, which discourages members from speculating on psychiatric characteristics of non-patients. “It is shameful and unfortunate that he is given a platform by Fox News or any other media organization,” Lieberman said. “Basically he is a narcissistic self-promoter of limited and dubious expertise.” Ablow isn’t an APA member, having resigned in 2011 in a dispute [...]