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The New York Times December 17, 1994, Saturday, Late Edition - Final BYLINE: AP SECTION: Section 1; Page 9; Column 2; National Desk LENGTH: 416 words DATELINE: PITTSBURGH, Dec. 16 A jury awarded more than $272,000 today to a couple and their teen-age daughter, who had joined in a suit charging a psychiatrist with failure to evaluate the girl's accusations of parental sex abuse. The parents, Richard and Cheryl Althaus, had been arrested and charged with sex abuse before their daughter, Nicole, recanted. They won $213,899 in their malpractice lawsuit against the psychiatrist, Dr. Judith Cohen, and the Western Psychiatric [...]
Timothy Mark Bowlan
The Houston Chronicle March 24, 1997, Monday, 3 STAR Edition Few doctors lost licenses over scandal; Psychiatric hospitals accused of filling beds 'at any cost' BYLINE: MARK SMITH; Staff SECTION: a; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 2699 words Flashbacks of the taunting and torture in the now-defunct Psychiatric Institute of Fort Worth continue to haunt Jeannie Warren. It's been nearly eight years since Warren's adoptive mother committed her to the for-profit psychiatric hospital. But Warren vividly recalls the terror of some two dozen ""rage reduction'' therapy sessions in which health workers pinned her down on a gym mat, then muffled her nose [...]
Harvey Wasserman
Hartford Courant (Connecticut) July 14, 1993, A Edition Board hears case on misconduct BYLINE: FRANK SPENCER-MOLLOY; Courant Medical Writer SECTION: A; Pg. a14 LENGTH: 438 words The Connecticut Medical Examining Board heard a case Tuesday against a Westport psychiatrist accused of engaging in sexual relations with a patient. Harvey R. Wasserman faces loss of his medical license on charges that he encouraged a patient to engage in sexual acts with him and that he sought to portray his behavior as a normal part of therapy during weekly sessions from 1981 to 1985. Although the patient testified that all the acts [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire July 30, 2003, Wednesday, BC cycle Psychiatrist charged with illegal sale of prescription drugs SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 172 words DATELINE: NEW YORK A New Jersey man has been arrested on charges that he illegally sold prescriptions out of an office on Manhattan's Upper East Side, authorities said. Aaron Friedberg, 40, of Alpine, N.J., was taken into custody after a four-month investigation by police and the Manhattan district attorney's office, said Det. Carolyn Chew, a police spokeswoman. Published reports said Friedberg, a psychiatrist, would see up to 30 people an hour, charging [...]