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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, [...]
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Psychiatrist Kripakaran Puvalai – Long History of Sexually Inappropriate Conduct
The State Journal Register SIU med school didn’t report resident’s conduct to state By Dean Olsen Staff Writer Jan. 5, 2014 Office of Psychiatrist Kripakaran Puvalai A local psychiatrist disciplined by the state for inappropriately touching six female patients as recently as 2013 was punished in the early 2000s, during his residency training in Springfield, for a lack of professional conduct and failure to maintain appropriate boundaries with patients. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, which operated the psychiatric residency program in which Dr. Kripakaran Puvalai was enrolled, never informed the state about Puvalai’s problems because officials at the [...]
Video – News Crew Ambushes Psychiatrist – His Psych Drugged Out Patient Killed 2 Beautiful Young Girls in Car Accident
Sunshine Coast Daily (Queensland) Tribunal to decide on doc's future January 7, 2014 Psychiatrist Philip Bird A public tribunal will be held to determine whether a Sunshine Coast doctor should continue to be a licensed medical practitioner. The Medical Board of Australia has moved against Maroochydore psychiatrist Dr Philip Bird because it said it "reasonably believes that the practitioner has behaved in a way that constitutes professional misconduct". The decision comes 12 years after complaints first were raised about the behaviour of Dr Bird and another psychiatrist, Dr Zoran Radovic, who both attended patients in the Ward 3c mental [...]
Oregon Cattle Killer Psychiatrist Joel Rice Buys Off Criminal Charges – Now Faces Animal Cruelty Charges
The Observer Cattle killer to face charges Criminal mischief charges dropped, animal abuse charges to move forward By Kelly Ducote January 10, 2014 Cattle Killer Psychiatrist Joel Rice Visiting Judge Lung S. Hung approved dismissing first-degree criminal mischief charges against Dr. Joel Rice pursuant to a civil compromise Thursday afternoon. After hearing about five hours of testimony and arguments, Hung, a circuit court judge out of Malheur County, found that animal abuse charges are not subject to a civil compromise, but agreed to sign an order dismissing the criminal mischief charges. Rice, a La Grande psychiatrist, was charged with [...]
Top Prescribing Texas Psychiatrist G.K. Ravichandran Disciplined – Used Alzheimer Drug on 8-year-old
Houston Chronicle Houston psychiatrist disciplined for prescribing anti-Alzheimer's drug to child By Lise Olsen December 21, 2013 Psychiatrist G.K. Ravichandran A Houston psychiatrist has been disciplined for improperly prescribing anti-Alzheimer's medication and other potentially dangerous drugs to an 8-year-old, according to a recent order by the Texas Medical Board. Dr. G.K. Ravichandran's prescriptions placed the unidentified child at "undue risk for experiencing complications," and the Alzheimer's drug, which is not clinically proven to be safe for children, was given without consent from the patient's mother, the board's March 2012 complaint alleged. Ravichandran, a psychiatrist who has been licensed in [...]
PsychSearch leaves no stone unturned – Victorious Again!
Daily Republic Florida man pries records away from South Dakota officials By Chris Mueller Dec 26, 2013 It took nearly five months, but a Florida man has been allowed to view records about doctors excluded from Medicaid in South Dakota. In July, Ken Kramer, of Clearwater, Fla., asked the South Dakota Department of Social Services for the names of every doctor terminated or excluded from Medicaid, a federal-state health care program for the poor, since 2010. Individuals or companies may be excluded from federal medical programs for various reasons, including health care fraud, overcharging patients, charging for unnecessary services, failure [...]