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Psychiatrist Adekumle Yesufu convicted of exposing himself
BBC Flasher psychiatrist found dead A psychiatrist convicted of exposing himself in front of three women in County Antrim has been found dead at his home in London. Dr Adekumle Yesufu was found guilty in February of performing the sex act at the home of a former work colleague in Carrickfergus in August last year. He was due to be sentenced at Belfast Magistrates Court on Monday. It is understood his body was discovered after he failed to turn up for a previous planned sentencing. The psychiatrist, who lived at Sydenham Park, London, was arrested when police were called to [...]
Psychiatrist Juan Tejeda gets prison for sexual assault
CBC News Psychiatrist gets prison for sexual assault The Canadian Press An Ottawa psychiatrist convicted of sexually assaulting a patient has seen his house arrest upgraded to a two-year prison sentence by Ontario's highest court. Dr. Juan Tejeda was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault after a former patient testified the psychiatrist plied him with alcohol to have sex in his office, car and in the victim's apartment. Tejeda, 66, was handed a conditional two-year sentence in December, which included 16 months of house arrest and 240 hours of community service. On Tuesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal [...]
New York Psychiatrist Richard Gardner thought society was too harsh on adults who had sex with kids
St. Petersburg Times Controversial disorder at center of bitter custody cases By Susan Taylor Martin May 21, 2010 Psychiatrist Richard Gardner HARPER, Texas — Deep in the Texas Hill Country, off a rutted road with a sign that says "Deer Processing,'' sits a three-bedroom mobile home. This is the Rachel House, run by Pamela and Bob Hoch. Dozens of kids from all over the nation have been brought here for days, even weeks with the goal of making them like a parent they fear or despise. "The children are expecting an institution, not this,'' says Pamela Hoch, gazing [...]
U.S. Senator Probes Florida Psychiatrist and University of Miami
Pharmalot Grassley Probes Nemeroff and University of Miami By Ed Silverman June 8, 2010 Psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff The Charles Nemeroff affair encompasses more people all the time. Now, the University of Miami Medical School has become ensnared in the ongoing probe launched by US Senator Chuck Grassley, who investigated Nemeroff as part of an inquiry into undisclosed financial conflicts of interest among academic researchers who receive federal grants. You may recall Nemeroff, who was recently hired by the University of Miami, had departed Emory University after the Senate probe disclosed he was accepting sizeable consulting fees from GlaxoSmithKline at [...]
William Roddy, psychiatrist, arrested for trafficking drugs
The Associated Press March 23, 2010 Ala. psychiatrist, wife face drug charges Officials in Huntsville say a Florence psychiatrist and his wife were arrested after prescription drugs and cash were found in their possession. Huntsville Police Sgt. Mark Roberts says 50-year-old Dr. William Roddy and 43-year-old Wendy Sue Roddy were charged with trafficking in a controlled substance. He says they were arrested on Sunday and were released on $250,000 bail each. Roberts says officers responded to a call about a man with a gun in a hotel parking lot and arrested Roddy. He says a search of Roddy and his [...]
Nathan Kuemmerle, Hollywood Psychiatrist, Arrested for Running a Pill Mill
States News Service WEST HOLLYWOOD PSYCHIATRIST, OFFICE MANAGER ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF WRITING HUGE NUMBER OF PRESCRIPTIONS FOR ADDICTIVE DRUGS WITHOUT EXAMINING CASH-PAYING PATIENTS April 13, 2010 Hollywood psychiatrist Nathan Kuemmerle The following information was released by the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California: A doctor who maintains a clinic in West Hollywood and his office manager were arrested this afternoon on federal charges of conspiring to distribute controlled substances for writing thousands of prescriptions for highly addictive drugs for patients he did not examine and who simply paid cash for the prescriptions. Dr. Nathan [...]
Red flags overlooked in prescription drug death of 12-year-old
Miami Herald Red flags overlooked in prescription drug death of 12-year-old BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER April 18, 2010 Born with autism, 12-year-old Denis Maltez was "hyper, needy, pesty," his psychiatrist wrote following a May 2007 visit. Dr. Steven L. Kaplan solved the 70-pound boy's problems with a prescription pad, writing orders for two different anti-psychotic drugs along with a tranquilizer and a mood stabilizer -- three of them in the highest doses recommended for adults, records show. When state medical regulators sent Kaplan letters suggesting the dosages were worrisome, he ignored them. Two weeks after Kaplan last saw the boy, [...]
Psychiatrist Melvin Pisetzner charged with patronizing a prostitute
WHEC-TV Penfield man charged with patronizing a prostitute Rochester, New York March 4, 2010 Psychiatrist Melvin Pisetzner A 67-year-old Penfield man has been arrested and charged with patronizing a prostitute in the third-degree. The investigation that led to the arrest of Melvin Pisetzner began when a 19-year-old male told police he had met Pisetzner in an online chat. Police say Pisetzner posed as a 55-year-old man and offered to pay the teen a sum of money to participate in a sex act with him. The 19-year-old is a former patient of Pisetzner – a psychiatrist, but police do not [...]
Psychiatrist Adam Osborne – serious professional misconduct
London Evening Standard George Osborne\'s brother guilty of giving drugs to cocaine-addicted escort girl Sophie Goodchild, Health Editor The doctor brother of shadow chancellor was today found guilty of serious professional misconduct after prescribing drugs to a cocaine-addicted escort girl. Dr Adam Osborne, 33, is facing career ruin after admitting he gave anti-psychotic drugs to the prostitute. He told the General Medical Council he started a relationship with the woman - known as “Miss B” - because his long-term partner and now wife Rahala Noor was working away from home. The hearing was told that Dr Noor\'s absence left him [...]
Dirty Shrink Himanshu Ghadiali groped patients
The Sun By LEON WATSON A PERVY shrink intimately touched “very vulnerable” women in his care and handled their breasts, a panel heard today. Dr Himanshu Ghadiali told one patient who had been sexually abused in childhood that she had “perfect breasts”, the General Medical Council hearing was told. The consultant psychiatrist then told the woman he “understood why people would want to have sex with her because she had a lovely figure”. The doc is accused of touching the private parts of four patients. Three of whom also claim Dr Ghadiali handled their breasts during the 1980s and 1990s [...]