MEDIA
Emery Berczeller – Psychiatrist accused of filing false claims
The New York Times August 13, 1981 2 Indicted by U.S. In Medicare Fraud A Federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted a psychiatrist and a psychologist on charges of filing false Medicare claims in a 15-month period at the Beacon Hall Home for Adults in Beacon, N.Y. The psychiatrist, Dr. Emery Berczeller of Forest Hills, Queens, and the psychologist, George Cohen of Spring Valley, N.Y., were accused of filing claims for services that were not performed. The defendants filed the claims after asking mentally disabled patients at the home to sign blank Medicare forms, according to the prosecutor, Sara E. [...]
Lowell Finkelstein – NYC Psychiatrist Arrested – Strangulation of Nude Man in his Apartment
The New York Times PSYCHIATRIST, 33, HELD IN SLAYING October 27, 1985 469 West 57th Street, NYC A 33-year-old psychiatrist was arrested yesterday in connection with the apparent strangulation of a man found nude in the psychiatrist's apartment in Manhattan, the police said. The police said they expected the psychiatrist, Dr. Lowell Finkelstein, to be charged with second-degree murder. Officers went to Dr. Finkelstein's apartment at 469 West 57th Street off Tenth Avenue at 8:42 A.M. yesterday after neighbors reported hearing the sounds of a struggle, the police said. A police spokesman said Dr. Finkelstein answered the door in the [...]
Robert E Bell Jr – Head Psychiatrist Arrested Over Cans of Tuna
The Miami Herald PRISON PSYCHIATRIST JAILED AFTER ALTERCATION May 22, 1991 By Herald Staff Florida State Prison's head psychiatrist was in jail Tuesday on charges of breaking into a Bradford County home and threatening his former girlfriend at knife-point. Robert E Bell Jr, who has worked at the Starke prison since 1988, was arrested after Donna Lee Brannen reported that he broke into her home. Investigators said he threatened to stab and kill her unless she returned items he claimed she had taken: chocolate syrup, several cans of tuna and some cigarettes. Bell was charged with armed burglary and aggravated [...]
Ewen Cameron – Psychiatrist did CIA LSD experiments
United Press International May 6, 1981 Psychiatrist Ewen Cameron Psychological treatment given Velma Orlikow at a Montreal hospital in the 1950s was not unlike ''brainwashing'' at concentration camps, an expert witness has told a court hearing her suit for damages. In Mrs. Orlikow's lawsuit against the Royal Victoria Hospital, the late Dr. Ewen Cameron is accused of having given her drugs and treatment that caused her permanent psychological damage. Cameron, former director of the hospital's Allan Memorial Institute, was described in court Tuesday as having been the foremost psychiatrist in Canada at the time Mrs. Orlikow, wife of federal [...]
Charles Culver – “Captain Ethics” Psychiatrist Expelled by the American Psychiatric Association
The Associated Press Medical Ethicist Disciplined for Affair With Patient Dateline: LEBANON, N.H. December 22, 1992 A psychiatrist once billed as "Captain Ethics" has been expelled by the American Psychiatric Association for allegedly having sex with a patient. Dr. Charles Culver, who helped found the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College, was investigated by the association after complaints by his former wife and a former patient, the Valley News of Lebanon reported Saturday. Culver was a psychiatrist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center before moving to Argentina in January. In a ruling released earlier this month, the association said he had "a personal [...]
Louis Tsavaris – License Revoked for Killing Patient
The Associated Press State Revokes Tsavaris' Medical License By Ken Klein October 11, 1982 Psychiatrist Louis Tsavaris State medical authorities have revoked the license of a Tampa psychiatrist because he was convicted of manslaughter in the death of a female patient, officials said Monday. Dr. Louis J. Tsavaris was barred from practicing medicine by the Florida Board of Medical Examiners at its meeting in Bal Harbour over the weekend. Last year, Tsavaris was sentenced to 15 years in prison after a jury found him guilty in the death of Cassandra "Sally" Burton, who died in 1975. Tsavaris is being [...]
Robert M Thompson – Psychiatrist, Got 200 Years in Prison
United Press International Dateline: Little Rock, Arkansas October 2, 1982 A psychiatrist convicted for homosexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy was sentenced to 200 years in prison and fined $200,000. "I'm still shocked," Dr. Robert M. Thompson said as he was led from the courtroom Friday. "I must be a pretty bad guy. I didn't know this was worse than murder." Thompson, 48, of North Little Rock received the maximum fine and prison sentence on each of 20 counts of carnal abuse. Deputy prosecutor Lloyd King said the 200-year sentence was one of the longest handed down and the fine [...]
Infamous Psychiatrist Aubrey Levin Must Turn Himself In Within 48 Hours – Sexually Assaulted Male Patients – He Once “Treated” Gay Soldiers with Electric Shocks
Montreal Gazette Calgary psychiatrist guilty of sex assault loses appeal, must turn himself in By Bill Graveland April 23, 2014 Psychiatrist Aubrey Levin CALGARY - The Alberta Court of Appeal has refused to overturn a psychiatrist's three convictions for sexually assaulting his court-appointed patients. Dr. Aubrey Levin was found guilty by a jury in January 2013 and was sentenced to five years in prison. Levin, 75, had asked the Appeal Court last October to dismiss the convictions and order a new trial. He had remained free on bail while the appeal was being heard. But the court has ruled [...]
NY Psychiatrist Melvin Pisetzner – License Revoked – Sex with Patient, Morally Unfit, Gross Negligence, Gross Incompetence
Democrat & Chronicle Pittsford psychiatrist loses medical license By Patti Singer April 26, 2014 Psychiatrist Melvin Pisetzner A Pittsford psychiatrist has had his medical license revoked for misconduct, including gross negligence, gross incompetence and moral unfitness to practice medicine. Dr. Melvin K. Pisetzner, whose practice is at 1000 Pittsford-Victor Road, gives up his license Monday, according to the state Department of Health. A hearing committee of the department's Board for Professional Medical Conduct sustained numerous allegations on six charges. The charges also were for negligence on more than one occasion, incompetence on more than one occasion and failure to [...]
Video – Wisconsin Sleazebag Psychiatrist Ronald Rubin Smokes Pot with Teen Patient – “He’s a nightmare,” Patient’s Mother Says. Had Sex with another Patient. Overprescribed Adderal.
fox6now.com Psychiatrist accused of smoking pot with patient, overprescribing ADD meds April 27, 2014 by Meghan Dwyer Psychiatrist Ronald Rubin MEQUON (WITI) — Even the best kids can be difficult teenagers. But Debra Wilcox doesn’t blame puberty for her daughter’s transformation. She blames something else. “I think he thought he was God,” Wilcox said. Four years ago, her daughter got hooked on Adderall, a potent amphetamine prescribed for Attention Deficit Disorder. “I had a messed up daughter after this,” Wilcox said. She was prescribed 90 milligrams a day — more than twice the maximum recommended dose for an adult. [...]