MEDIA
The Associated Press State & Local Wire February 3, 2008 Sunday 3:49 PM GMT Former psychiatrist gets jail term for illegal prescriptions SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 110 words DATELINE: STROUDSBURG Pa. A former psychiatrist from East Stroudsburg is sentenced to six to 18 months in county jail. Prosecutors say Harold Pascal illegally prescribed potentially addictive drugs in an overcrowded, poorly run office. Pascal was charged in 2006. He later surrendered his medical license and pleaded no contest to two counts of illegal medical prescriptions and one count of Medicaid fraud. At Friday's sentencing in Monroe County Court, former co-workers [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire September 29, 1999, Wednesday, BC cycle Woman's family files wrongful-death suit against Kevorkian associate SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 355 words DATELINE: RIO RANCHO, N.M. The sister of a woman who was allegedly given a drug overdose has filed a wrongful-death suit against the retired psychiatrist accused of killing her. Prosecutors allege Georges Reding, 74, of Galesburg, Mich., administered a lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital to Donna Brennan, 54, in August 1998. A Sandoval County grand jury indicted Reding Aug. 19 on charges of first-degree murder, practicing medicine without a license, trafficking [...]
Alice Dean
The Associated Press Psychiatrist Sentenced to India for Medicaid Fraud August 13, 1980 Wisconsin's attorney general is unhappy with a Milwaukee judge's decision to send suburban psychiatrist Alice Dean to India to serve an alternative sentence for Medicaid fraud. Ms. Dean, convicted of obtaining $13,285 in fraudulent payments, has been directed to spend three years in southern India treating needy children. The sentence also requires that she repay the $13,285 within 90 days. The maximum sentence would have been 18 years in prison plus fines of up to $11,000. Saying the sentence may be the "first of its kind in [...]
Los Angeles Times April 18, 2000, Tuesday, Orange County Edition STATE BOARD DISCIPLINES 2 O.C. DOCTORS; A SANTA ANA PSYCHIATRIST LOSES HIS LICENSE FOR HAVING SEX WITH A PATIENT, AND A LAGUNA BEACH SURGEON IS PUNISHED FOR NEGLIGENCE. BYLINE: PETER M. WARREN, TIMES STAFF WRITER SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 3; Metro Desk LENGTH: 713 words The Medical Board of California has severely disciplined two Orange County doctors, one for having sex with patients and the other for botching liposuction surgery and deceiving patients. Jeffrey Moran, a Santa Ana psychiatrist, had his license revoked by the board, which found he [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire November 4, 1999, Thursday, AM cycle Psychiatrist suspended for sexual misconduct with patient SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 239 words DATELINE: NASHUA, N.H. A psychiatrist who admitted to sexual misconduct with a female patient has been suspended from practicing for a year. Dr. Mark Strecker admitted repeated "inappropriate touching or physical contact" with the woman, according to the ruling by the state Board of Medicine. The board credited Strecker with owning up to his conduct. Strecker, who formerly practiced in Manchester and at Charter Brookside Hospital in Nashua, is undergoing counseling himself, according [...]
Samuel Albert
Los Angeles Times November 11, 1987, Wednesday, Orange County Edition PSYCHIATRIST FACING ALLEGATIONS, INCLUDING PATIENT SEXUAL AFFAIR BYLINE: By JIM CARLTON, Times Staff Writer SECTION: Metro; Part 2; Page 3; Column 5; Metro Desk LENGTH: 530 words A state medical board has accused a Fountain Valley psychiatrist of negligence, incompetence and unethical conduct for allegedly entering into a months-long sexual affair with a suicidal patient. Dr. Samuel H. Albert, 50, faces revocation or suspension of his medical license if the accusation by the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance is upheld. The board will set a hearing date for sometime [...]
Hugh Brown
The Miami Herald October 3, 1987 Saturday BRWRD EDITION PRISON DOCTOR GUILTY OF DRUG POSSESSION BYLINE: JAMES F. McCARTY Herald Staff Writer SECTION: BRWD N; BR; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 299 words A Broward prison psychiatrist suspected of a sex-for-favors scheme pleaded guilty Friday to possession of marijuana. In a soft, high-pitched voice, Dr. Hugh Brown admitted to the crime, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison. The 54-year-old Pembroke Pines resident was sentenced to four years probation as part of a plea agreement. Assistant state attorney Martin Murphy said Brown planned to smuggle a 5-ounce bag [...]
Richard Seely
The Miami Herald May 14, 1988 Saturday STATE EDITION PATIENTS LEFT ADDICTED ANGRY AT PSYCHIATRIST BYLINE: TRACEY EATON Herald Staff Writer SECTION: GLF; D; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 981 words Dr. Richard Seely, a Princeton graduate with boyish good looks and blue eyes, seemed to have the world in his hands when he started a psychiatry practice in Naples three years ago. Now he faces possible criminal charges. State officials also have suspended his medical license and his patients are angry. John Franck Jr., 45, a Naples Park security guard, visited Seely in July 1985 after a neurologist referred him for [...]
William John Johns
Press Journal (Vero Beach, Florida) October 6, 2007 Saturday Indian River County Edition 'Mentally ill' Vero psychiatrist has license suspended BYLINE: JAMES KIRLEYjim.kirley@scripps.com SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A1 LENGTH: 490 words VERO BEACH -- The Florida Department of Health issued an emergency suspension of a Vero Beach psychiatrist's medical license this week after learning the doctor pleaded "not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect" to charges he tried to kidnap a 2-year-old from his mother in New York City last year. The doctor later told a court he thought the mother was from outer space. Dr. William John [...]
The Boston Globe January 23, 1993, Saturday, City Edition Tufts doctor was tenured while probe under way BYLINE: By Alison Bass, Globe Staff SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 1076 words The Tufts University School of Medicine awarded tenure and a department chairmanship to Dr. Richard I. Shader after a 1991 sexual harassment complaint against him was settled for $ 90,000 and while the state medical board was investigating a separate charge that he had sexually exploited a female patient, according to a source familiar with the case. The state Board of Registration in Medicine last month put Shader on what [...]