MEDIA
Aaron Groves, Tasmania’s chief psychiatrist – suspended
PerthNow Tasmania’s chief psych Aaron Groves suspended by regulator By Madeleine Achenza October 6, 2022 -- Excerpt The national medical regulator has suspended the licence of Tasmania’s chief psychiatrist. The Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency confirmed that Aaron Groves’ registration was suspended by the Medical Board of Australia on Monday. He will not be able to practise during the suspension. A spokesman said the agency would not be commenting further due to privacy reasons... He has previously held the role of chief psychiatrist in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia. Anthony Cidoni has been acting as the state’s chief [...]
Karen Zelas, NZ psychiatrist – her “evidence lacked balance”
Karen Zelas nzherald.co.nz Peter Ellis: Convictions posthumously quashed in landmark Supreme Court decision By Hazel Osborne October 6, 2022 -- Excerpt ... In the justices' decision, read out via livestream from the court in Wellington at 2pm, they found that some evidence at Ellis' trial was unfair and should not have been admitted. This included the evidence of the Crown's expert witness, psychiatrist Dr Karen Zelas, under section 23G of the Evidence Act 1908. Zelas gave evidence that the parents who accused Ellis of abusing seven children reported behaviour that Zelas said was consistent with sexually abused children. They [...]
Zinia Thomas, Missouri Psychiatrist, faces illegal drug charges
KMOV4 Local doctor known for giving medical marijuana cards could lose her license --Excerpt ST. LOUIS (KMOV) — A local doctor could lose her license because she is now facing discipline for doling out medical marijuana. Dr. Zinia Thomas is also facing criminal charges. We’ve met Dr. Thomas before. She’s a licensed psychiatrist in Missouri who runs several local businesses. But she also took her medical marijuana practice on the road and that could ultimately send her career up in smoke. In 2019, News 4 Investigates went undercover as Dr. Thomas took her Cannabis tour to a shop in [...]
Mike McPhillips, London Psychiatrist, feared complaint
Mike McPhillips MyLondon Top West London psychiatrist took own life after an official complaint was made about his work By Adela Whittingham and Josh Bolton September 25, 2022 -- Excerpt A top celebrity psychiatrist took his own life after hearing he was being investigated by the General Medical Council. Dr Mike McPhillips, who helped celebrities including The Saturdays singer Frankie Bridge, feared the complaint being made public, an inquest into his death heard. Four days after receiving an email from the GMC detailing the complaint, he called police to tell them where he intended to kill himself and asked them [...]
Bernard Calamy, Parisian psychiatrist, sentenced
Bernard Calamy Google translation Midi Libre Montpellier: twelve years in prison for the former psychiatrist who raped girls in the Gard September 10, 2022 -- Excerpt Bernard Calamy, 84, retired in Sauve, was declared guilty by the jurors of Hérault on Friday, after his appeal trial, where he had been sentenced to 13 years in prison, was broken in Avignon. His denials and his wavering memory will not have been enough. The Assize Court of Hérault sentenced Friday, September 9 a former Parisian psychiatrist, having retired in the Cévennes, to twelve years of criminal imprisonment for the rapes committed [...]
Thomas Gratzer, Twin Cities psychiatrist, charged
Thomas Gratzer Alpha News Former MPD psychological evaluator charged with sexual assault of minor By Crime Watch MN September 7, 2022 -- Excerpt A Twin Cities psychiatrist who formerly served as a mental fitness evaluator for the Minneapolis Police Department has been charged with criminal sexual conduct involving a minor. Dr. Thomas Gabor Gratzer, 57, of Edina, is accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor child who was known to him. The female victim, who is now an adult, told an investigator with the Edina Police Department that she’d been sexually assaulted multiple times by Gratzer starting [...]
Psychiatrist Bandy Lee fails to get Yale gig back
Psychiatrist Bandy Lee New York Post Psychiatrist Brandy Lee, who slammed Trump’s mental state, fails to get Yale gig back By David Propper September 1, 2022 -- Excerpt A prominent psychiatrist who called President Trump and his loyalists mentally ill failed to get her job back after Yale University parted ways with Dr. Bandy Lee two years ago, a judge ruled. A federal judge in Connecticut dismissed a wrongful termination lawsuit that charged the Ivy League school with violating the woman’s free speech and professional obligations when she was not reappointed to her role with the school, the Harford [...]
Keith Howard, NY Psychiatrist, locked up for eight years
Keith Howard The City 10 Years a Detainee: Why Some Spend Years on Rikers, Despite Right to Speedy Trial By Reuven Blau August 17, 2022 -- Excerpt Back and Forth Locked up for eight years, Dr. Keith Howard, who is facing a second-degree murder charge, is the second-longest-serving detainee on Rikers, records show. He’s been held without bail since May 14, 2014, when authorities charged him with killing his tenant, Karla Shah-Boguwolski, 39, in Arverne, Queens, days before superstorm Sandy. He initially fled to Maryland after the murder, according to the Queens District Attorney’s office. In 2017, his trial ended [...]
Ricardo Cruciani, exploited his training as a psychiatrist
Ricardo Cruciani LawandCrime.com New York Jury Convicts Neurologist on a Dozen Counts for Raping and Sexually Assaulting Six of His Patients --Excerpt ...Ricardo Cruciani, 68, has now stands convicted on a dozen charges, including a count of predatory sexual assault, one count of attempted rape in the first degree, one count of sexual abuse in the first degree, two counts of rape in the third degree, and seven counts of criminal sexual act in the third degree. His sentencing has been scheduled for Sept. 14. The predatory sexual assault charge is itself punishable by up to life in prison... Between [...]
Psychiatrist Chan Herng Nieng, Singapore
Singapore Psychiatrist Chan Herng Nieng Today 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned': Woman loses negligence lawsuit against psychiatrist ex-lover By Louisa Tang July 19, 2022 -- Excerpt SINGAPORE — A woman who had an extramarital affair with her psychiatrist has failed in her lawsuit against him, after she sued him for negligence for allegedly getting her hooked on pills to manage her anxiety. High Court judge Tan Siong Thye on Tuesday (July 19) described Ms Serene Tiong Sze Yin’s lawsuit as her “latest episode in her plot for revenge” against Dr Chan Herng Nieng... Despite ruling in Dr [...]