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Orange County Psychiatrist Surrenders License – incompetent, unprofessional and grossly negligent in treatment of psychiatric patient left with a broken neck for five hours
Los Angeles Times O.C. doctor accused by medical board to give up license By Lee Romney February 5, 2014 Metropolitan State Hospital, Norwalk, CA SAN FRANCISCO — More than four years after a 52-year-old psychiatric patient was left with a broken neck for five hours on the floor of her room at Metropolitan State Hospital, the physician responsible for her care has agreed to give up his license, according to the state medical board. Dr. Ngoc Le Tuyen, of Fountain Valley, who goes by Tuyen Le, agreed to surrender his license rather than fight an accusation filed last summer [...]
“Expert” in forensic psychiatry Charges with Sexual Assault
CBC News March 24, 2010 Aubrey Levin – Courtroom psychiatrist charged in sex assault Psychiatrist Aubrey Levin Calgary psychiatrist Dr. Aubrey Levin is charged with sexually assaulting a patient. (CBC) Dr. Aubrey Levin, a Calgary psychiatrist who has worked extensively with justice officials on criminal cases, has been charged with sexual assault. Police say a 36-year-old man, one of Levin’s long-term patients, alleges he was sexually assaulted repeatedly by Levin over a period of time. Levin, 71, has regularly testified in court cases as an expert in forensic psychiatry, a factor that could widen the investigation, police said. “He [...]
Video – Goofy Fox News Psychiatrist Keith Ablow Invents Even Another Disorder – “Data Rage”
The Raw Story Fox psychiatrist invents ‘data rage’ after theater shooting to blame phones instead of guns By David Edwards January 14, 2014 Psychiatrist Keith Ablow Fox News “Medical A-Team” member Keith Ablow thinks smartphones may be even more dangerous to have in theaters than handguns. Ablow on Tuesday said a smartphone caused a retired police officer to experience “data rage” toward a man who was texting in a Florida theater and fatally shoot him. After Curtis Reeves was ordered held without bond on Tuesday, Fox News hosts Bill Hemmer and Alisyn Camerota asked the television psychiatrist what might [...]
PsychSearch.net Celebrating Ten Years
PsychSearch.net was created in 2004. It has been refined a bit. Originally, we compiled public records on psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage counselors and clinical social workers in Florida. Now, we focus strictly upon psychiatrists and have expanded outside Florida to cover the nation. We'd like to warmly and sincerely thank those of you who helped in the last decade. We've gotten to know many of you only through e-mail and online postings. Maybe we can thank you in person sometime. As is our custom, we would like to ask you once again for your opinion on how to [...]
Psychiatrist Threatens Patient: “You should be afraid of me. I am the one who is going to shock your brain with electricity”
Star Tribune State psychiatrist scolded on shock threat at Minnesota Security Hospital By PAUL MCENROE January 21, 2014 Property owned by psychiatrist James Anders Christensen, Rochester, MN (from Google Earth) Ruling of maltreatment by Security Hospital psychiatrist is about-face. A state psychiatrist committed emotional maltreatment when he threatened a mentally ill patient at the Minnesota Security Hospital with electroshock therapy, a top state official has determined. The decision by Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson overrules the department’s inspector general, who decided last month that the psychiatrist’s threats didn’t merit a finding of maltreatment. “The reasonable person on the street [...]
Dominique Bourget
The Gazette (Montreal) January 25, 2014 Saturday Doctor downplays addictiveness of nicotine; Testimony in hearing leads to complaint filed by anti-smoking organization By MICHELLE LALONDE The Non-Smokers' Rights Association has filed a complaint with the Collège des médecins du Québec against a psychiatrist who testified this week at the ongoing hearings of two class action suits brought by Quebec smokers against three tobacco companies. The complaint accuses Dominique Bourget, a forensic psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, of breaching the College's ethics code by "minimizing the gravity of, if not denying the existence of, tobacco dependence" in her [...]
Psychiatrist Andrew McBride in Hot Water over Drugging and Sex with Patient
Oxford Mail January 25, 2014 Psychiatrist had affair with vulnerable patient A PSYCHIATRIST denied an affair with a vulnerable patient only to admit to it after her death, a tribunal has heard. Dr Andrew McBride was twice investigated over the "intimate and sexual" 2003 to 2010 affair, it heard. But the addiction specialist later admitted the affair through solicitors, Hugh Davies for the General Medical Council (GMC) told the tribunal. He said Dr McBride - later sacked over the affair - met the un-named "vulnerable" woman in 2003 when she was 48, at Oxford's Rectory Centre. She had a history [...]
Psychiatrist Paul Strickland Attacks Wife, Bites Her Face
Manchester Evening News Psychiatrist bit wife's face in row over another lover By Tom Brooks-Pollock January 30, 2014 Psychiatrist Paul Strickland A top doctor bit his wife’s face before breaking her glasses and hitting her around the head with a cardboard box, a court heard. Paul Strickland, 51, launched the violent attack after finding out that his wife was seeing someone new following the breakdown of their 20-year marriage. The consultant psychiatrist, who works for the NHS in Salford , Trafford and Bolton , left Judith Richardson seven voicemail messages and banged on the door of their former shared [...]
Wife Shoots “Near” her Pennsylvania Psychiatrist Husband John Mitchell (yes, of course, he had prescribed drugs to her)
Morning Call Woman admits firing gun near psychiatrist husband By Kevin Amerman January 2, 2014 Psychiatrist - John Mitchelll Often looking confused and needing much coaching from her attorney, a former Lower Milford woman cautiously admitted Thursday to recklessly endangering her husband, an Emmaus psychiatrist, by firing a gun in his vicinity while he slept. Patricia Lee Mitchell, 56, denied shooting the gun directly at her husband as alleged by authorities, but admitted she fired it in her living room as he slept on the floor around 3:45 a.m. on June 22 at the couple's home on Vera Cruz [...]
Earl Hardin, Vancouver, BC Psychiatrist, Reprimanded for hand-holding, hugging and kissing patient
College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia 300–669 Howe Street Telephone: 604-733-7758 Vancouver BC V6C 0B4 Toll Free: 1-800-461-3008 (in BC) www.cpsbc.ca Fax: 604-733-3503 Serving the public through excellence and professionalism in medical practice MEDIA RELEASE – January 7, 2014 Dr. HARDIN, Earl David Vancouver, BC When reporting this release, please provide the name and location of the physician in full in order to avoid confusion with any other physician who may have a similar name or initials. VANCOUVER, BC: Dr. Earl David Hardin, a psychiatrist, has admitted to engaging in unprofessional conduct by using touch (such as hand-holding, [...]