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Tennessee Psychiatrist Abul Kasem Fakhruddin Surrenders License after Overbilling $325,758
The Tennessean State medical board takes action against pain doctor, psychiatrist Improper narcotics prescriptions, billing bring action February 22, 2014 By Tom Wilemon 803 Meadowlark Ln, Goodlettsville, TN - former "practice address" of psychiatrist Abul Kasem Fakhruddin A Nashville psychiatrist accused of overbilling Tennessee’s Medicaid program has surrendered his license, while a Lebanon pain doctor has had his suspended for improperly prescribing narcotics. The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners took actions against Dr. A K Fakhruddin, the psychiatrist, and Dr. Nii S. Quao, the pain doctor, at its January meeting, according to a disciplinary report released last week. The [...]
Sydney psychiatrist to be Sentenced in Assaults Against Patients
9News National February 27, 2014 Psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan Assaulted Patients at Sydney's Northside Clinic, a teaching hospital for the University of Sydney Former psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan had three rules he drummed home to his patients: honesty, confidentiality and speaking up when one is pissed off. The disgraced Sydney practitioner manipulated these principles and left four women deeply affected, a court has heard. Tan has pleaded guilty to four charges of aggravated indecent assault against patients. In a sentence hearing on Thursday, Tan's victims emotionally recounted the effect his behaviour had had on their lives. The women had [...]
California Prison Psychiatrist Pedro Eva Convicted of Grand Theft
The Californian Feb. 27, 2014 Salinas Valley State Prison Dr. Pedro Eva, 49, of Soledad, has been convicted of grand theft and submitting false claims to the state of California while working at Salinas Valley State Prison, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. The charges stem from an investigation conducted by the Office of the Inspector General from March 1 to June 30, 2007, which was initiated after authorities received an anonymous letter alleging that Dr. Eva and four other doctors were overbilling the state for their services, prosecutors said. The investigation revealed that all these doctors [...]
Psychiatrist Andrew McBride Used Patient for Sex – Struck off
Oxford Mail Psychiatrist struck off for ‘using woman for sex’ February 4, 2014 The General Medical Council (pictured) has struck off McBride, saying that he 'abused his position of trust' A PSYCHIATRIST who confessed to a seven-year affair with a vulnerable patient after she was found dead has been struck off. Dr Andrew McBride started a sexual relationship with the woman while treating her for drug and alcohol abuse at the Rectory Centre in Oxford in 2003. In a string of diary entries read out at a disciplinary tribunal, the woman described how she felt McBride was “using her [...]
Video – Crackhead Psychiatrist (also a University of Florida Professor) increased dangerous amounts of drugs leading to one patient’s death
Psychiatrist Harold E. Smith GTN NEWS The Florida Board of Medicine lays down the law for one UF psychiatric professor. Dr. Harold Smith has a history of drug abuse--and is also accused of prescribing lethal amounts of oxycontin to a patient. In our big story this half- hour-- GTN'S Briana Harper joins us live in the newsroom with more on what could happen next. This is Smith's third disciplinary hearing with the board since receiving his Florida medical license in 1999. The state medical board made a unanimous decision to discipline the professor - but the question now is [...]
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 [...]