MEDIA
Kameron Ravindra Budhram, Detroit Psychiatrist, Convicted
State of Michigan Complaint No. 51-23-002564 STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS BUREAU OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSING BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY DISCIPLINARY SUBCOMMITTEE In the Matter of KAMERON RAVINDRA BUDHRAM, D.O. License No. 51-01-025414 Complaint No. 51-23-002564 (Consolidated with file no. 51-22-001807) ... FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS... 9. On or about April 12, 2022, Respondent was spending time with victim LH (initials used to protect identity) at LH's residence in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. At the time, Respondent and LH were both participating in the same residency program at Detroit Wayne County Health Authority's Graduate Medical Education. 10. During [...]
David Tatum, Charlotte Psychiatrist, Sentenced
New York Post North Carolina child psychiatrist hit with 40 years for filming minors, using AI to make child porn --Excerpt A North Carolina child psychiatrist was hit with a 40-year prison sentence Wednesday for using artificial intelligence to transform innocent pictures of children into intense pornography stills. David Tatum, 41, will also have to serve 30 years of supervised release for secretly recording multiple teenagers — including his several family members and a patient — getting undressed... The child and adolescent psychiatrist spent five years collecting a trove of child pornography starting in 2016, according to evidence presented [...]
Jonathan Kirsch, Kingston psychiatrist, Sued
Jonathan Kirsch Westfair Business Journal Kingston psychiatrist shrinks from buying White Plains practice By Bill Heltzel November 7, 2023 -- Excerpt A bankruptcy trustee has sued a Kingston psychiatrist to compel him to buy the psychiatric practice of a disgraced White Plains practitioner. Albert Togut asked U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Nov. 1 to make Dr. Jonathan L. Kirsch pay $250,000 for the practice of former psychiatrist and current federal inmate Marc Laruelle. Kirsch has failed to honor a contract to buy Laruelle’s practice, according to the complaint, has not responded to a subpoena for documents, has failed to attend [...]
Anandababu Chellappan, Henrico psychiatrist, license revoked
Anandababu Chellappan Richmond Times Dispatch Henrico psychiatrist's license revoked after sex allegations By Bill McKelway October 31, 2013 -- Excerpt A Henrico County-based psychiatrist's license was revoked because he repeatedly sexually fondled patients despite their expressed objections and mental illnesses, according to Board of Medicine documents. Dr. Anandababu Chellappan signed a consent order last week, according to board records, in which he accepted revocation of his license and the board adopted findings of fact that spell out egregious abuses of six female patients. The documents describe a pattern of conduct dating to 2008 in which the psychiatrist prescribed controlled [...]
Jamal Hilal, Sudanese psychiatrist, based in UK, “creepy”
Jamal Hilal Daily Mail Senior NHS psychiatrist who touched a junior member of staff's breasts during an 'unnecessary' examination and quizzed her about her sex life asking 'are you experimental?' is struck off By Jon Brady October 26, 2023 -- Excerpt A 'creepy' psychiatrist who massaged a junior member of staff's breasts in an 'unnecessary and inappropriate' medical examination later claimed the young woman had been trying to 'tempt' him into touching her. Dr Jamal Hilal, a Sudanese doctor based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has been banned from practising medicine after he pursued the trainee, named Ms B to protect her identity, [...]
Kuwait Psychiatrist sentenced
Kuwait Psychiatrist Gulf News Kuwait: Psychiatrist jailed for 5 years over drugs to inmates October 20, 2023 16:08 By Ramadan Al Sherbini -- Excerpt Cairo: The appeals court in Kuwait has sentenced a psychiatrist to five years on charges of smuggling drugs to prisoners, a Kuwaiti newspaper has reported. The man had been earlier caught while illegally taking drugs into Kuwait’s Central Prison for inmates there, Al Qabas added. The specialist was supposed to treat drug addicts and counsel them about the harm caused by narcotics, according to the report. Investigations revealed that the defendant used to enter the prison [...]
Donna Dryer, Cortes Island Psychiatrist, resigns
Donna Dryer CBC B.C. psychiatrist resigns licence after patient complains of abuse during psychedelic therapy study By Bethany Lindsay October 16, 2023 -- Excerpt A B.C. psychiatrist has permanently relinquished her medical licence in response to a complaint about her treatment of a PTSD patient taking part in a clinical trial for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, CBC News has learned. Donna Dryer of Cortes Island irrevocably resigned her registration on Aug. 1 and received a formal reprimand after admitting to unprofessional conduct with the female patient, according to a letter from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. (CPSBC) to the [...]
Doc Mailloux, Quebec psychiatrist, suspended for two years
Doc Mailloux Montreal Gazette Jail time 'broke him,' witness tells sentence hearing of La Fontaine Tunnel protester By Paul Cherry October 13, 2023 -- Excerpt Mario Roy, one of the people behind a protest that stopped traffic inside the La Fontaine Tunnel, presented a witness with a questionable background during his sentencing hearing on Friday. Roy, 52, called Pierre (Doc) Mailloux, a psychiatrist and media personality who has been suspended from Quebec’s College of Physicians in the past, as his sole witness at the Montreal courthouse. Roy is acting as his own lawyer and is trying to avoid the six-month [...]
Jonathan Weiss, North Andover psychiatrist, reprimanded
Jonathan Weiss Eagle Tribune North Andover psychiatrist fined for prescribing antidepressant to patient's dog October 12, 2023 By Teddy Tauscher -- Excerpt ANDOVER A North Andover psychiatrist has been fined $5,000 by the Massachusetts Board of Medicine for wrongfully writing a prescription for Prozac to quiet a patient's dog. Dr. Jonathan Weiss said only after the incident did he learn that he doesn't have the legal right to prescribe to a dog. "Frankly, it did not occur to me that I wouldn't," he said. "In retrospect, what I should have done is say to the woman 'Go to your veterinarian [...]
Suleyman Salih Zoroglu, Turkey Psychiatrist, arrested
Suleyman Salih Zoroglu Daily Mail Psychiatrist 'drugged up to 180 children and falsely convinced them they had been sexually abused by their parents so he could cash in on treating them' By Chris Jewers September 22, 2023 -- Excerpt A psychiatrist accused of drugging scores of children to convince them their parents had sexually abused them has been seized by police in Turkey. Professor Suleyman Salih Zoroglu is said to have dosed nearly 200 youngsters with psychoactive drugs after they were taken to see him at his clinic in Istanbul in order to cash in on subsequent treatment. Then, local [...]