MEDIA
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 [...]
Edward L. Kelly
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Judge says doctors lied about psych care By Paul McEnroe April 7, 2013 Two psychiatrists at the Minnesota Security Hospital in St. Peter deliberately misled a Hennepin County judge about the care of a mentally ill woman after the judge concluded she had suffered medical neglect, according to court documents reviewed by the Star Tribune. In a stinging order issued Thursday, Judge Jay Quam accused the woman's psychiatrist, who has since been fired, and the hospital's medical director of engaging in a cover-up to hide violations of medical protocol and create the impression that the 49-year-old [...]
High Use Of Antipsychotics In Nursing Homes
Connecticut Health Investigative Team [C-HIT] By: LISA CHEDEKEL | January 30, 2013 The Westside Care Center in Manchester is ranked among the best nursing homes in Connecticut, receiving a ‘five-star’ rating for overall quality under a federal rating system. At the same time, Westside has the state’s highest percentage of residents who receive antipsychotic drugs, even though they do not have a psychosis or related condition that regulators say warrants their use. Federal data shows 68 percent of Westside long-stay residents were receiving the drugs – more than double the state’s average of 26 percent, which already ranks in the top-third of states [...]
Controversial mental health program set for Page
Lake Powell Chronicle By Lawrence Baker Apr 10th, 2013 The Columbia University TeenScreen suicide and mental health screening, recently approved for use in the middle school by the Page Unified School District governing board, has become the center of controversy after a parent and former board member raised several concerns. The TeenScreen program, backed by Native Americans for Community Action, was approved last month by the board, and was scheduled to be implemented beginning April 8, until Robin Brough and other citizens challenged the need for such a service in the area and the validity of the program overall. Among [...]
Canadian Psych Gets 5 Years
Psychiatrist Aubrey Levin Sun News Another year before all charges against Dr. Aubrey Levin are resolved By Kevin Martin April 12, 2013 It will be at least another year before all the charges against disgraced former court psychiatrist Dr. Aubrey Levin are resolved. Crown and defence lawyers appeared in Court of Queen's Bench Friday to set dates for retrials on three outstanding sex assault charges he faces from ex-patients. Prosecutor Dallas Sopko stayed one of the outstanding charges against Levin, but said the Crown would be proceeding to a second trial on three others which jurors failed to [...]
NY Government Psychiatrist Surrenders License after 25 years of inappropriate relationships – receives annual state pension of nearly $58,000
Journal News Mt. Kisco surgeon, Pearl River psychiatrist cited by state Mar 18, 2013 Queens Child Psychiatric Center A Mount Kisco plastic surgeon who failed to monitor a patient during a facelift and a Pearl River psychiatrist who allegedly had inappropriate relationships with patients for 25 years have been cited by the state Department of Health. The separate cases involve Dr. Sharon Dechiara, who practices plastic surgery in Mount Kisco and Dr. Kendon W. Smith, a psychiatrist in Pearl River who formerly lived in Mount Vernon and practiced medicine at a state-run center in Queens, records show. Dechiara, 54, [...]