MEDIA
Psychiatrist Faces War Crimes – accused of genocide and crimes against humanity
Deutsche Welle (Germany) Five years after arrest, Karadzic shows no remorse for Bosnia crimes By Dzevad Sabljakovic, Zoran Arbutina July 21, 2013 Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic On July 21, 2008, Dragan David Dabic - an alternative medicine doctor - was arrested in Serbia. In reality, Dabic was a false identity for one of the world's most-wanted men: alleged war criminal Radovan Karadzic. For 12 years, Karadzic managed to escape international justice. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia issued a warrant for his arrest in July 1996. Karadzic was accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, committed during the [...]
“Respected” Ohio Psychiatrist Gets the Slammer
Fox 8 Cleveland Doctor Sentenced for Running ‘Pill Mill’ by Jack Shea June 25, 2013 Psychiatrist Samuel Nigro CLEVELAND – A local psychiatrist who admitted that he used his practice to illegally prescribe powerful drugs for profit was sentenced Tuesday to nine months in prison. In April, Dr. Samuel Nigro pleaded guilty to charges that include drug trafficking, tampering with drugs and attempting to engage in a pattern of corrupt activity. Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Dan Kasaris told FOX 8, “Drug addicts went to him for pills. Now there probably were some who did go to him for psychiatry, [...]
Pennsylvania Psychiatrist Michael Kessler arrested for child born
WNEP 16 Psychiatrist Arrested for Child Porn by Lara Greenberg June 21, 2013 Psychiatrist Michael Kessler STROUDSBURG — A former psychiatrist is locked up on child porn charges. The arrest comes after the state determined he was too dangerous to practice medicine. Michael Kessler ignored our questions as he was led out of the Monroe County Detectives Office and taken to jail. Police arrested Kessler at his home in Cresco after finishing a month-long investigation into his relationship with a 13-year-old boy. According to court papers, Kessler posed as a 14-year-old on Facebook and sent pornographic videos and pictures [...]
William Belfar, New York “Anti-Pill” Psychiatrist – Arrested by Feds
Newsday (New York) June 19, 2013 Feds: Anti-pill doctor sold prescriptions By Ellen Yan Psychiatrist William Belfar A psychiatrist who publicly denounced doctors for selling painkillers for money was arrested yesterday for cashing in on the illegal business, too, federal officials said. William S. Belfar, of Huntington, charged up to $1,000 for each oxycodone prescription he wrote out to two undercover FBI agents and an FBI informant on three occasions between May 2011 and this past April, according to the FBI and the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. During one sale, Belfar wrote the prescription even though he said he [...]
76-year-old Psychiatrist Arrested for Sexual Assault
CBC Ottawa psychiatrist charged with sexually assaulting patient May 1, 2013 A 76-year-old Ottawa psychiatrist has been charged with sexual assault after a patient of his told police he touched her inappropriately during medical appointments at his office. Mark Solomon was charged by police last week and was released from custody on a promise to appear in court. The patient, a 37-year-old woman, came forward to police on March 29. She said the incidents happened in his office at 1867 Lenester Ave., near Maitland and Carling avenues. Solomon's next court appearance is scheduled for May 9. The College of Physicians [...]
Haisam Al-Khouri
The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) May 17, 2013 Friday Doctor fined $25K for letting students prescribe drugs By Andrew Knittle A longtime Oklahoma City psychiatrist was fined $25,000 and placed on probation Thursday for allowing students to write prescriptions for potentially dangerous medications. Dr. Haisam Al-Khouri was disciplined during the Oklahoma Medical Board's monthly meeting in Oklahoma City, along with one of his former subordinates. In addition to the five-digit fine, Al-Khouri was placed on 30 months' probation and will not be allowed to supervise students studying to become physician assistants. According to board documents, Al-Khouri allowed students from [...]
John Harding Price, UK Psychiatrist, has not learned his lesson
Lincolnshire Echo Psychiatrist banned for groping a patient fails to win back register place May 16, 2013 Psychiatrist John Harding Price A shamed psychiatrist struck off 13 years ago for groping a female patient has failed in his bid to have his name restored to the medical register – because he has not learned his lesson. John Harding Price, 84, was banned in 2000 when a General Medical Council (GMC) committee found him guilty of professional misconduct towards three women patients. Harding Price was working as a GP at the Lawn Medical Centre in Sewell Road, Lincoln, when the [...]
Judge Suspicious of Psych’s Records
Star Tribune Records infraction was not first for doctor fired from state mental hospital By PAUL MCENROE April 13, 2013 Minnesota Security Hospital Complex in St. Peter, Minn. A psychiatrist who was fired this year for failing to properly document patient care at the Minnesota Security Hospital had been forced to resign in 2005 for exactly the same violation — yet was later rehired by the state and spent three years treating patients at regional mental health hospitals. The psychiatrist, Dr. Edward L. Kelly, returned to work for the state in 2009 to practice in the Community Behavioral [...]
Twenty Women come forward against Canadian psychiatrist Stanley Dobrowolski
Sun News ON doc faces 40 new charges, including sexual assault, voyeurism and child porn By Jennifer O'Brien April 15th, 2013 Psychiatrist Stanley Dobrowolski LONDON, ON - A psychiatrist faces 40 new charges, including sexual assault, voyeurism and child pornography. Police say twenty women - including a 17-year-old of whom "images were taken without her informed consent" - have come forward against psychiatrist Stanley Dobrowolski. That brings the total number of charges against him to 43. "We are reasonably confident now that we've spoken to anyone who is going to come forward," Det. Insp. Kevin Heslop said. "The investigation [...]
Texas Psychiatrist suspended after raping patient
American-Statesman Doctor’s license suspended after rape arrest Tuesday, April 2, 2013 By Mary Ann Roser Psychiatrist David Cardwell The Texas Medical Board has temporarily suspended the license of Austin psychiatrist David Williams Cardwell after police charged him with raping a female patient last month, the board’s order says. Cardwell, 64, did not respond to an email or phone call seeking comment Tuesday afternoon. The medical board’s order says he saw the woman, whom he had been treating since the 1980s, Jan. 21 when the alleged assault occurred. The patient called him from the police department’s Sex Crimes Unit on [...]