MEDIA
Henry Fenigstein
The Canadian Press May 18, 1993 QUEBEC-ONTARIO REGIONAL GENERAL NEWS TORONTO - A renowned psychiatrist who specialized in counselling Holocaust survivors has admitted having sex with a patient over a five-year period. Dr. Henry Fenigstein, 80, himself a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, also admitted telling the victim she may be subjected to electric shock therapy by other doctors if she revealed their sexual relationship. Fenigstein pleaded guilty to professional misconduct Monday in front of a discipline panel of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. The college revoked Fenigstein\'s licence. In a statement released after the ruling, the [...]
Donald Rife
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Doctor loses license for misconduct By Carol Gentry June 7, 1993 Florida authorities have known since 1987 that a Tampa child psychiatrist likes to have sex with boys. But for legal reasons they have been unable to take his medical license away. Until now. On Sunday, the Florida Board of Medicine revoked the license of Dr. Donald Lee Rife, following the lead of a similar board in Vermont. The Florida board cited Vermont officials' assessment that Rife is a sexual predator. Rife volunteers in schools and juvenile detention centers and other places where it would be [...]
Margaret Bean-Bayog
The Associated Press Psychiatrist Accused in Patient's Suicide Resigns; State Hearing Canceled By Jonathan Yenkin September 19, 1992 A psychiatrist accused of seducing a patient who later committed suicide has succeeded on her second try at resigning her medical license. The resignation submitted Friday by Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog was "permanent, unconditional and unequivocal," unlike the one offered Thursday that had strings attached, said Michelle Haynes, a spokeswoman for the state Office of Consumer Affairs. Haynes said the disciplinary action against Bean-Bayog was over and a state hearing scheduled for Monday would be canceled. Bean-Bayog can continue work as a psychotherapist [...]
Peter M. Panzarino
PR Newswire FORMER MCLEAN HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIST SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT ON TAX EVASION CHARGE Dateline: Boston September 14, 1992 A former Weston psychiatrist and staff member at McLean Hospital in Belmont was sentenced Friday in federal court on charges of tax evasion for the tax year 1986. Acting U.S. Attorney A. John Pappalardo announced today that Peter M. Panzarino, M.D., 45, formerly of 70 Fairview Rd., Weston, Mass., and now a resident of San Diego, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock to three years probation and community service, following his plea, earlier this year, to income tax [...]
Byron Crawford
Los Angeles Times DEAL REACHED IN WORKERS' COMP SUIT; LEGAL: WITHOUT ADMITTING WRONGDOING, A CLINIC AGREES TO PAY INSURER AN UNDISCLOSED SUM. By STUART SILVERSTEIN August 18, 1992 An insurance company waging an unorthodox legal attack on alleged workers' compensation fraud claimed its first victory Monday, reaching a settlement with a clinic that it accused of running up big medical bills by providing unnecessary treatment. The settlement requires the clinic, Wellington Medical Corp. of Los Angeles, and any other firms owned by psychiatrist Byron Crawford to abide by a list of "protocols" designed to prevent health care providers from bilking [...]
Luis Herrero
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) August 10, 1992 3 Pinellas doctors disciplined By Carol Gentry Don't you just hate it when doctors say your pain is all in your head? Clearwater psychiatrist Luis Herrero has learned to be cautious about making that assumption. A 41-year-old woman he diagnosed with "psychogenic pain disorder" actually had stomach cancer. Eventually, doctors figured that out, but not before she spent some time in a psychiatric ward. Herrero's was one of several cases involving Pinellas County physicians that came before the Florida Board of Medicine in Tallahassee this past weekend. Others involved Dr. Si H. Azar, [...]
Sofia Pamplona
Los Angeles Times D.A. DECIDES NOT TO CHARGE 4 PSYCHIATRISTS; MOONLIGHTING: PROSECUTORS ARE UNABLE TO PROVE THE STATE HOSPITAL DOCTORS WERE DOUBLE DIPPING BY WORKING AT COUNTY FACILITIES. By TINA DAUNT April 11, 1992 The Ventura County district attorney's office has decided not to file criminal charges against four Camarillo State Hospital psychiatrists who were accused of moonlighting at county psychiatric clinics while they were also being paid to work at the state facility. After an 11-month investigation, Deputy Dist. Atty. James P. Cloninger determined that there was no way to prove that psychiatrists were double dipping by working at [...]
Beth Milford
Los Angeles Times D.A. DECIDES NOT TO CHARGE 4 PSYCHIATRISTS; MOONLIGHTING: PROSECUTORS ARE UNABLE TO PROVE THE STATE HOSPITAL DOCTORS WERE DOUBLE DIPPING BY WORKING AT COUNTY FACILITIES. By TINA DAUNT April 11, 1992 The Ventura County district attorney's office has decided not to file criminal charges against four Camarillo State Hospital psychiatrists who were accused of moonlighting at county psychiatric clinics while they were also being paid to work at the state facility. After an 11-month investigation, Deputy Dist. Atty. James P. Cloninger determined that there was no way to prove that psychiatrists were double dipping by working at [...]
Thomas Arthur Williams
St. Petersburg Times Mentally ill psychiatrist suspended By CAROL GENTRY April 5, 1992 The former chief of psychiatry at Tampa's VA hospital has been stricken by the same illness he once treated. On Saturday, the Florida Board of Medicine suspended the license of Dr. Thomas Arthur Williams, 55, on the grounds he is mentally ill. Williams did not appear at the hearing in Jacksonville. Records show he agreed to the suspension. It was a precipitous fall for Williams, who once led the Department of Psychiatry at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He was earning $ 175,000 a year as medical director [...]
Robert L. McDonald
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Psychiatrist accused of practicing illegally License revoked earlier in sex cases By Bill Robinson and Rebecca Perl February 29, 1992 Dr. Robert L. McDonald, an Atlanta psychiatrist whose license was revoked in September for having sex with two women patients, was arrested Friday on a charge of practicing without a license, according to the GBI. Dr. McDonald had continued practicing out of his office at 3390 Peachtree Road N.E., said GBI spokesman John Bankhead. A GBI agent posing as a patient made an appointment with Dr. McDonald "to see if there was evidence, and obviously [...]