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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 [...]
Ottawa psychiatrist Juan Tejeda-Rosario on trial for sexual assault
The Ottawa Citizen Doctor used toilet brush, horse whip in sex sessions, complainant testifies By Chris Cobb A second male complainant in the sexual assault trial of an Ottawa psychiatrist testified yesterday that the doctor violated him with a toilet brush and horse whip during a series of kinky sex sessions. The complainant, who by court order cannot be publicly identified, testified that his eyesight was permanently damaged by Dr. Juan Tejeda-Rosario -- known as Dr. Tejeda -- when the psychiatrist put a white plastic garbage bag over his (the complainant\'s) head in a prelude to oral sex. In often [...]
Samuel A. Malcolmson – License Revoked – Sex with Patient
National Post The fall of a well-respected man By Joseph Brean, National Post The Samuel A. Malcolmson Lecture Theatre is a small, shabby auditorium at the end of a long corridor at the downtown campus of Toronto\'s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, formerly the Queen Street Mental Health Centre, formerly the Provincial Lunatic Asylum. Its distinguished 71-year-old namesake pleaded \"no contest\" yesterday to allegations he sexually abused a much younger female patient, and even fathered a son with her, for which the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario revoked his medical licence. Samuel Malcolmson, who is married, was [...]
Psychiatrist John N. MacTavish admits intimacy, resigns
Vancouver Sun Psychiatrist admits intimacy, resigns Case generated by patient's complaint of inappropriate conduct by doctor Canwest News Service A former Victoria psychiatrist has resigned from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. after admitting to having an intimate relationship with a patient. The college, which serves as the licensing and regulatory body for all physicians and surgeons in the province, has issued a news release saying that Dr. John N. MacTavish acknowledged his inappropriate conduct, which took place \"in or around\" 2005. The case was generated by a patient complaint, said college spokeswoman Susan Prins. \"The physician came [...]