MEDIA
Michael Gilbert, Miami Psychiatrist – Gets Year for Bribe
Michael Gilbert The Miami Herald Famed Psychiatrist Gets Year for Bribe By Don Van Natta Jr. May 1, 1991 -- Excerpt Famed criminal psychiatrist Michael Gilbert stood up one last time in a Dade courtroom Tuesday and asked a judge to go easy on a mentally deficient defendant. Only this time, the defendant was Dr. Gilbert. "I regret terribly what I did, and I know what I did was an aberration," said Gilbert, 75, who was convicted in March of bribing a Metro-Dade police officer to concoct a cocaine bust against a Miami lawyer. His plea for leniency [...]
Jean Claude Pierre Hill, psychiatrist, sentenced to life
Jean Claude Pierre Hill Orlando Sentinel DOCTOR SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDER April 29, 1992 Jean-Claude Pierre Hill, the Virginia physician whom a jury found guilty of first-degree murder but mentally ill in the random shooting death of an insurance executive, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. The verdict "guilty but mentally ill" means that Hill, 30, will receive psychiatric treatment for his illness until a doctor determines he is well enough to go into the general prison population. It took a jury less than two hours Monday to find Hill guilty of the murder of Cigna [...]
Edward Askren, Georgia Psychiatrist, “disciplined in sex case”
Edward Askren The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Psychiatrist is disciplined in sex case; License suspended a month for intimacies with patient in 1981 By Steve Sternberg April 4, 1991 -- Excerpt The medical license of Dr. Edward L. Askren III, a psychiatrist who had admitted having sex with a patient, was temporarily suspended Wednesday by the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners. The one-month suspension will be followed by five years of probation during which Dr. Askren must undergo psychotherapy, must be supervised by another psychiatrist - and may not see any patient without a licensed therapist in the [...]
Marc Talisman, Ca. Psychiatrist, accused of sex with 17-year-old
Marc Talisman Los Angeles Times Psychiatrist Accused of Sex with Two Patients By Lanie Jones February 26, 1991 -- Excerpt The Medical Board of California has accused a longtime county Health Care Agency psychiatrist of gross negligence for allegedly having sexual relations with two patients, one only 17 years old. The board, which monitors the professional conduct of the state's physicians, is seeking to revoke or suspend the license of Marc Z. Talisman, 45, a part-time psychiatrist in the county's Mission Viejo mental health office for 10 years. Under ethical cannons, psychiatrists are not supposed to have any personal relationship [...]
James White, Newport Beach psychiatrist, sentenced
James White Los Angeles Times PSYCHIATRIST SENTENCED FOR MOLESTING PATIENT;CRIME: THE JUDGE GIVES DR. JAMES WHITE SIX YEARS AND TACKS ON EIGHT MONTHS FOR HIS FAILURE TO APPEAR AT AN EARLIER SENTENCING. HE WAS ARRESTED LATER IN TEXAS. By Jerry Hicks January 10, 1991 -- Excerpt A judge sentenced Newport Beach psychiatrist James Harrington White to six years and eight months in prison Wednesday for sexually molesting a 29-year-old patient while the man was unconscious. White, 48, pleaded guilty last spring to two counts of sexual molestation stemming from one incident, which he had preserved on videotape. But the day [...]
Norman Ackerman, Manhattan psychiatrist, arrested
Norman Ackerman Newsday (New York) Psychiatric Clinic Charged In $ 1.3M Fraud By Gale Scott December 7, 1990 -- Excerpt A Roslyn psychiatrist and his two Manhattan partners were arrested yesterday and charged with $ 1.3 million in Medicaid fraud in connection with a defunct psychiatric clinic they operated on 121st Street in Harlem. Dr. Nathaniel Lehrman, 67, of Roslyn, Dr. Norman Ackerman, 65, who practiced psychiatry in Manhattan until his license was revoked for sexual misconduct, and their office manager, Robert Cohen, 51, are charged with fraudulently billing the state for 50,000 "phantom" psychotherapy sessions at the Lenox Psychiatric [...]
Leonard R. Friedman, Massachusetts Psychiatrist – “sexual activity with patient”
Leonard R. Friedman The Boston Globe SJC rule backs medicine panel NEW ENGLAND NEWS BRIEFS November 2, 1990 The state's highest court ruled yesterday that the state Board of Registration in Medicine did not abuse its powers when it decided three years ago to revoke the license of a Boston psychiatrist for engaging in sexual activity with a patient. The Supreme Judicial Court said there was "substantial evidence" for the board to conclude that Dr. Leonard R. Friedman of the Back Bay had "engaged in gross misconduct in the practice of medicine." The board revoked Friedman's license on June 24, [...]
Simon Sanchez, West Islip psychiatrist, sentenced
Simon Sanchez Newsday (New York) Psychiatrist Gets Jail WEST ISLIP June 12, 1990 -- Excerpt A 62-year-old West Islip psychiatrist has been sentenced to 6 months in jail, 850 hours of community service and a $ 1,000 fine for overbilling Medicaid by exaggerating the amount of time he spent with Medicaid patients. The psychiatrist, Dr. Simon Sanchez, appeared yesterday before Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Kenneth K. Rohl. He was jailed April 12 after pleading guilty to the crime of offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree, according to a news release from the Office [...]
Velma Powell, College Park psychiatrist, sentenced
Velma Powell The Washington Post College Park Psychiatrist, 2 Aides Sentenced in Prescription Case By Paul W. Valentine May 11, 1990 -- Excerpt A College Park psychiatrist and two of her assistants have been sentenced on charges of improperly prescribing drugs to scores of patients. A social worker and an unlicensed therapist working for the psychiatrist, Velma E.L. Powell, illegally wrote prescriptions on slips signed in advance by Powell, prosecutors said. The assistants also switched patients' medications and dosages for powerful tranquilizers and pain killers such as Valium and Demerol, often with little supervision by Powell, according to the prosecutors. [...]
George Hayter, California psychiatrist, accused of kissing and fondling one of his patients
George Hayter Los Angeles Times PSYCHIATRIST CHARGED WITH FONDLING A FEMALE PATIENT By LANIE JONES May 9, 1990 -- Excerpt The Medical Board of California has accused an Orange psychiatrist of kissing and fondling one of his patients and continuing that intimate conduct for 3 1/2 years. Dr. George M. Hayter, 52, vehemently denied the charges. "That's totally untrue," he said. A 1966 graduate of Duke University Medical School, Hayter has been licensed to practice medicine in California since 1968 and has served on staff at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange for 18 years. In an April 12 civil [...]