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Shock treatment psychiatrists
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA Shock Treatment Psychiatrist Theresa L. Clark 1200 7TH AVENUE NORTH, ST PETERSBURG, FL 33705 holds staff privileges at Morton Plant Hospital, 300 Pinellas Street, Clearwater, Florida Shock Treatment Psychiatrist Maykel Luna Concepcion 300 PINELLAS STREET, MS 70, CLEARWATER, FL 33756 holds staff privileges at Morton Plant Hospital, 300 Pinellas Street, Clearwater, Florida Francis K Butler 100 MAIN STREET, SUITE 203, SAFETY HARBOR, FL 34695, holds staff privileges at WINDMOOR HEALTHCARE OF CLEARWATER, 11300 U.S. 19 North, Clearwater, FL 33764
Sex attack shrink Kolathur Unni jailed
BBC News A psychiatrist has been jailed for 18 months for a sex attack on a patient during a hypnotherapy session. Kolathur Unni, 56, was permitted to work despite a history of indecency towards women patients. The psychiatrist, of Ash Grove, Palmers Green, north London, was unanimously convicted of indecent assault on a woman, known as Miss A, between January and June 1996. He was acquitted of two further similar counts involving mother-of-two Miss B. Unni was struck off by the General Medical Council (GMC) after his initial fall from grace. However, six years later, after working as a shelf [...]
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Lance Pope, Psychiatrist, Sentenced for Thievery
The Associated Press Psychiatrist sentenced in house-sale scam April 2, 1999 Early last year, Massachusetts antiques dealers were delighted with the opportunity a psychiatrist gave them to buy the contents of well-appointed homes on Martha's Vineyard. What they didn't know was that he had broken into the homes they were visiting. On Thursday, Lance Pope, 43, was sentenced to serve 18 months of a 2 -year sentence in the Dukes County House of Correction for breaking and entering and larceny. Pope had managed to sell off a truckload of antiques before a sharp-eyed police detective caught him just after the [...]
Mayna Choudry, CA psychiatrist, arrested for drugging woman to unconsciousness, then sexually assaulting and beating her
The Associated Press Dateline: Modesto, Calif. April 11, 1999 A California state prison psychiatrist has been arrested at a Modesto motel in the rape of a Reno, Nev., woman, officers said. Mayna Meah Choudry, 65, is accused of using drugs Wednesday to make the 39-year-old woman lose consciousness, then sexually assaulting and beating the woman. Police Lt. Skip McKune said Choudry knew the woman and picked her up early last week near Reno. He agreed to pay her $ 1,000 a day if she would accompany him to California and help him celebrate his birthday. The woman called police on [...]
Gloria Keraga, psychiatrist, accused of collecting excessive insurance payments by convincing patients that they needed treatment for multiple personalities related to satanic-cult abuse
The Houston Chronicle Defendants free, but not cleared, in cult-memories trial; Psychotherapists still say patients were abused By Mark Smith April 04, 1999 Two Houston psychotherapists once accused of an insurance scheme exploiting patients' memories of satanic abuse say they still believe cults may have been responsible for the patients' conditions. Gloria Keraga, who worked at Spring Shadows Glen Hospital in the early 1990s, said she isn't sure if patients who testified against her were in a massive, international cult or were victims of isolated incidents of profound abuse. "I don't know if it is a worldwide conspiracy of satanism," [...]
Phillip Cenac, psychiatrist, suspended for “unethical practices”
The Associated Press State & Local Wire April 17, 1999 Hospital suspends executive Dateline: Greensburg, La. St. Helena Parish Hospital has suspended the staff privileges of its chief executive officer who is also a psychiatrist at the hospital, according to a letter signed by the chief of staff. Thursday's action against Dr. Phillip Louis Cenac Jr. applies only to his medical privileges and not to his position as chief executive officer, L.E. Stringer explained in the letter. "This unanimous suspension by the medical staff was based on multiple occurrences of unethical practices of medicine," Stringer wrote. The letter, which became [...]
Michael Menaster, CA psychiatrist, arrested on weapons charges
Los Angeles Times VENTURA COUNTY NEWS SIMI DOCTOR SUSPECTED OF WEAPONS VIOLATIONS By Daniel Yi May 2, 1999 Alerted by an alarmed tipster, Irvine police arrested a Simi Valley psychiatrist Saturday on suspicion of keeping an illegal assault weapon in his car and carrying a pistol to a college class. Dr. Michael Menaster, who is studying for an MBA at UCI's Graduate School of Management, was carrying the loaded semiautomatic pistol and also had two 9mm semiautomatic pistols and an AK-47 assault weapon in his car, said police Sgt. Phil Povey. Police arrested Menaster, 35, without incident near his Toyota [...]
Francisco Borges, Psychiatrist, Charged with Medicaid Fraud
The Associated Press May 7, 1999 Six employees of mental health clinic charged with Medicaid fraud Dateline: Miami Six employees of an outpatient mental health clinic were charged with engaging in an organized scheme to defraud the state out of Medicaid funds. The Florida Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit arrested two owners, an office manager, two counselors and a psychiatrist of the Prometeo Counseling Center, which remained closed Thursday, after an undercover investigation exposed the alleged scheme. An undercover agent, posing as a patient, attended group therapy sessions, which consisted of drinking Cuban coffee, eating white bread, watching television, [...]
UNCOVERED: DOCTOR CAN’T HIDE BEHIND SURGERY
Wisconsin State Journal By Cary Segall This is a case that hinged on circumcision-stantial evidence. A psychiatrist who went to extraordinary lengths to cover up having sex with a patient found his circumcision used against him by the 2nd District Court of Appeals Wednesday. Dr. Francois Saculla had the surgery in March 1991, about a year after his patient told an official at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Center that he had had sex with her. The patient said she had gone to Saculla\'s Racine home three times in late 1989 and once performed oral sex on him. Saculla, 65, [...]