MEDIA
Joseph Jackson
The Boston Herald November 14, 2011 Monday BHR Edition State board lets docs off easy; Abuse of patient must be a crime BYLINE: COLMAN M. HERMAN SECTION: OPINION; Commentary; Pg. 23 Vol. 29 No. 318 LENGTH: 624 words When a suburban homemaker shows up at the emergency room at Newton-Wellesley Hospital feeling suicidal, she sees a psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph A. Jackson, who gives her a kind of treatment she never expected. Over the course of four sessions, what starts out as a professional relationship quickly turns social, then manipulative, and finally sexual and exploitative. As a result, Jackson's license to [...]
The Boston Globe July 24, 1997, Thursday, City Edition Activists angered over ad for study; Psychiatrist is accused of abuse BYLINE: By Dolores Kong, Globe Staff SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B1 LENGTH: 555 words A McLean Hospital psychiatrist who is under state medical board investigation for alleged sexual misconduct with a patient is recruiting 18-to-22-year-olds who were sexually abused as children for a study, a revelation that prompted outrage yesterday from victims' advocates. Dr. Martin H. Teicher, well known for his work with seasonal affective disorder and the antidepressant drug Prozac, was listed as the contact in an advertisement in yesterday's [...]
Hei Young Oh, New York Psychiatrist – License Revoked – in one case prescribed 7,000 narcotic pills to pregnant patient
Newsday (New York) Doctors Slapped With Sanctions By Roni Rabin December 27, 1995 The state has revoked the medical license of a Huntington Station physician who liberally dispensed prescriptions for controlled substances such as Valium, Percocet and codeine, in one case prescribing 7,000 narcotic pills to a patient even though she was pregnant. In addition to yanking the license of Dr. Hei Young Oh, the state Office of Professional Medical Conduct suspended the license of another Huntington Station physician, Dr. Veeresh Patil, who described himself as a psychiatrist specializing in weight reduction. Patil, who is allowed to continue practicing medicine [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire January 9, 2002, Wednesday, BC cycle State medical board disciplines two doctors SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 183 words DATELINE: BOSTON A doctor who allegedly attacked his friend with a baseball bat had his medical license suspended Wednesday in one of two disciplinary actions taken by the state Board of Registration in Medicine. Edgar A. Buttner, 39, a certified psychiatrist and neurologist, was arrested last week in Boston after allegedly beating a fellow doctor who visited his Back Bay apartment. The friend, Peter Muz, suffered four broken bones. Buttner, who was a postdoctoral [...]
Anne-Francis Nicol, Rhode Island Psychiatrist, indicted on criminal charges of first-degree arson
The Associated Press Psychiatrist suspended over prescriptions November 11, 2003 A psychiatrist who had two patients die of drug overdoses while they were undergoing a controversial treatment for pain has had her license indefinitely suspended. The state medical board on Monday suspended Anne-Francis Nicol's license to practice medicine. Nicol, whose privileges to prescribe narcotic painkillers were suspended in June 2002, had given the patients who died a narcotic-like painkiller and an anti-anxiety drug. The Woonsocket Call reports the board's administrator said the drugs prescribed, Darvon and Doxetein, were not a violation of the prior order, but said Nicol failed to [...]
Allan Clark
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Suboxone clinic owner gets halfway house, home confinement in $1.4 million opioid tax scheme By Torsten Ove March 12, 2019 A Washington County psychiatrist was sentenced Monday to a halfway house and home confinement for not paying income taxes on cash-only payments he received at the Suboxone clinic he ran. U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab imposed a term of five years of probation on Allan W. Clark, with 180 days at Renewal, Inc., and another 180 days at home. He must also pay a $15,000 fine and nearly $400,000 in restitution to the IRS on cash payments he [...]
J. Vernon Magnuson
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Conyers psychiatrist charged in death plot Doctor targeted wife, police say By Duane D. Stanford April 30, 1994 A Conyers psychiatrist was arrested at his office and charged with conspiring to kill his estranged wife after he allegedly offered to pay an undercover officer and another man $ 9,000 to kill her. Dr. J. Vernon Magnuson, 53, of 2690 Valleydale Drive in Conyers, was freed on a $ 50,000 bond. Rockdale County prosecutors had asked for bond of $ 500,000. Conyers authorities and the GBI began investigating Magnuson several weeks ago after Covington police arrested [...]