MEDIA
Felix Larocca, Missouri psychiatrist, sex with teen-age patients
Felix Larocca St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) PSYCHIATRIST ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT LOSES LICENSE By Roger Signor August 13, 1992 -- Excerpt Missouri's agency that disciplines errant doctors has revoked the medical license of Dr. Felix F. Larocca, a St. Louis psychiatrist who the agency says had sexual relations with two of his teen-age patients in the mid-1980s. The agency, the Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, announced its decision Wednesday. Larocca, medical director of Deaconess Hospital's Eating and Mood Disorders Program, resigned his position Wednesday because he no longer has a medical license, said Jerry W. Paul, hospital [...]
Melvin Wise, Florida psychiatrist, license revoked
Melvin Wise St. Petersburg Times Doctor's license revoked By Carol Gentry August 8, 1992 -- Excerpt ... Malcolmson told the board Florida needs to form a task force to ease the plight of sexual abuse victims who are getting chewed up by the system. While seven women brought complaints against Dr. Melvin Wise, two refused to testify after seeing the others skewered by Wise's attorneys. Only Malcolmson's case survived the legal process. It was the basis for the board's vote Friday to revoke Wise's license. Wise, who practiced child and adolescent psychiatry in Miami, did not appear at the hearing. [...]
David McWhirter, San Diego Psychiatrist, sued
David McWhirter Los Angeles Times SEX THERAPIST SUED BY MALE EX-PATIENT By Nora Zamichow July 30, 1992 -- Excerpt A male former patient is suing the medical director of the San Diego County Psychiatric Hospital, alleging that Dr. David McWhirter took advantage of his emotional problems to seduce him, and another former patient has filed notice that he intends to sue on similar grounds. McWhirter, an expert in human sexuality and head of the county's mental health facility for five years, invited the first patient to his home for dinner, where the patient said he was "forcibly dragged across [...]
Thomas Morris, Mass. Psychiatrist, accused of misconduct
Thomas Morris The Boston Globe Panel likely to clear doctor of sex abuse; Critics decry handling of women's complaints By Alison Bass, Globe Staff July 3, 1992 -- Excerpt In the latest turn in a byzantine case that has triggered bitter complaints from patient-advocates, the state medical board is expected next week to drop charges against a psychiatrist accused of sexually abusing two women patients during the 1970s. Advocates for sexual-abuse victims charge that the process was stacked in the doctor's favor because the board refused to hold a joint hearing on the two women's complaints; following separate proceedings, [...]
Edward Daniels, Boston Psychiatrist, license revoked
Edward Daniels The Boston Globe Board votes to strip psychiatrist of license By Alison Bass and Luz Delgado June 25, 1992 -- Excerpt The state medical board voted unanimously last night to revoke the medical license of Dr. Edward M. Daniels, one of the most influential psychiatrists in the Boston area, for allegedly sexually abusing four female patients over the last three decades. "Indeed, the pattern, nature, extent and severity of misconduct, including the number of patients involved and the harm" to the patients "is so egregious that we can think of no circumstances whereby the respondent could satisfactorily demonstrate [...]
Eric Burstein, Columbus psychiatrist, license revoked
Eric Burstein Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) SEX WITH PATIENT COSTS PSYCHIATRIST OHIO LICENSE May 15, 1992 By Laurie Loscocco -- Excerpt A former Columbus psychiatrist has lost his license to practice medicine in Ohio for having a three-year sexual relationship with a patient. The State Medical Board of Ohio on Wednesday permanently revoked the license of Dr. Eric Burstein, who now practices in Albuquerque, N.M. Burstein was associated with Riverside Methodist Hospitals from 1980 to 1989 and a local health maintenance organization from 1984 to 1989. The board charged that Burstein had a sexual relationship with a psychiatric patient from July [...]
John Hamilton, Columbia psychiatrist – guilty of unprofessional conduct
John Hamilton The Washington Post Psychiatry Official From Md. Had Sex With Patient; Columbia Doctor Quits as Officer of National Association After His License Is Suspended By Stephen Buckley March 6, 1992 -- Excerpt A Columbia psychiatrist resigned as an officer of the American Psychiatric Association Wednesday night after Maryland's medical disciplinary board suspended his license for a year because he had a sexual relationship with a patient. John Hamilton, 68, stepped down as a deputy medical director of the APA after the state Board of Physician Quality Assurance found him guilty of unprofessional conduct toward a 40-year-old woman being [...]
Robert Willis, psychiatrist (NY & NJ) – sentenced
Robert Willis Los Angeles Times INSIDE-TRADING PSYCHIATRIST IS SPARED JAIL; SECURITIES: A NEW YORK MAN WHO OBTAINED STOCK INFORMATION FROM A PATIENT -- THE WIFE OF A TOP EXECUTIVE -- GETS PROBATION AND A $150,000 FINE. January 8, 1992 -- Excerpt A psychiatrist who traded stocks on inside information about BankAmerica Corp. that he learned while treating the wife of financier Sanford Weill was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation and fined $150,000. The sentence was surprisingly light, as the presiding judge had been highly critical of the psychiatrist, Robert Willis, 52, of Tenafly, N.J., for betraying the trust [...]
Jason Richter, Denver psychiatrist, loses lawsuit
Jason Richter Hartford Courant PBS examines issue of sex on therapist's couch By Frank Spencer-Molloy November 12, 1991 -- Excerpt That decided minority of Americans who believed Anita Hill's version of events will appreciate the blame-the-victim strategy that largely succeeds tonight when PBS's "Frontline" explores the subject of sex between therapists and patients. "My Doctor, My Lover" (9 p.m., CPTV, Channel 24 in Hartford area) shows how rape begets rape as the courtroom tactics of lawyers for a 35-year-old Denver psychiatrist accused of sexual malpractice take up where the psychiatrist, Dr. Jason Richter, left off. Canadian documentary-makers John Zaritsky and [...]
James Tyhurst, Vancouver psychiatrist, sentenced
James Tyhurst The Globe and Mail CANADA IN BRIEF Psychiatrist sentenced By CP June 26, 1991 A Vancouver psychiatrist found guilty of sexually enslaving four former patients was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison. Dr. James Tyhurst, former head of the University of British Columbia psychiatry department, was convicted earlier this month.