MEDIA
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 [...]
Arthur J. Gross
Newsday (New York) MD Charged in Scam By Shirley E. Perlman February 20, 1992 A Hicksville psychiatrist yesterday was charged with five counts of criminal sale of a prescription and one count of fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. Arthur J. Gross, 65, was arrested Tuesday at his office at 372 S. Oyster Bay Rd. after a three-month investigation by Nassau police, the district attorney's office and the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency. Gross, who entered a plea of not guilty, was arraigned on the charges yesterday in Hempstead before First District Court Judge Leonard Clarke, who set bail at [...]
E. Stuart Hendrickson
The Associated Press Psychiatrist Charged With Sending Racists Faxes Dateline: Pittsburgh February 19, 1992 A psychiatrist was accused of faxing 100 racist messages to people, including former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Lynn Swann. E. Stuart Hendrickson, 51, of Murrysville, pleaded innocent Monday to 13 counts of ethnic intimidation and harassment by communication. He remained jailed Tuesday in lieu of $ 15,000 bond. Detectives said Hendrickson, who is white, admitted sending the messages, but said he was only joking. "When I found out this guy is a psychiatrist, I wondered what his patients had been told," said Swann, who got the faxes [...]
Paul Ernest Morentz
The San Francisco Chronicle Vacaville Prison Psychiatrist Had Drug Conviction Doctor is reprimanded for 1989 misdemeanor By Susan Sward July 11, 1991 The chief psychiatrist at the Vacaville state prison, where three drug-related inmate deaths were reported last week, has been reprimanded in connection with his 1989 guilty plea to a federal charge of dispensing drugs without prescriptions, The Chronicle has learned. The state Board of Medical Quality Assurance issued a decision effective last Saturday that Paul Ernest Morentz be given a letter of reprimand for dispensing prescription drugs without prescriptions to co-workers who were not his patients. The reprimand [...]