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The News Herald (Morganton, North Carolina) December 19, 2009 Saturday Medical board suspends local doctor's license BYLINE: Staff reports SECTION: NEWS LENGTH: 431 words Raleigh, NC - The North Carolina Medical Board has suspended a Morganton psychiatrist's license. The board issued a consent order on Oct. 8 suspending the license of Dr. Kurian Chiramel Abraham. The board immediately stayed the suspension, except for 30 days from Dec. 1 through Dec. 30. Dr, Abraham will remain on probation until April 8. Every two months, the N.C. Medical Board produces a complete bi-monthly report of all its disciplinary actions such as revocations, [...]
Los Angeles Times December 17, 2009 Thursday Home Edition Doctor's license put on probation; Norman J. Lachman is accused of having improper relationships with 2 patients. BYLINE: Rong-Gong Lin II SECTION: MAIN NEWS; Metro Desk; Part A; Pg. 10 LENGTH: 607 words A Los Angeles psychiatrist agreed to have his medical license placed on probation last month after the Medical Board of California alleged he had controlling and improper relationships with two adult patients, a brother and sister. In an accusation filed by the Medical Board of California, the state agency that disciplines doctors accused Dr. Norman J. Lachman, 68, [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire These materials may not be republished without the express written consent of The Associated Press December 19, 2000, Tuesday, BC cycle Doctor disciplined for prescribing painkillers for himself SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 192 words DATELINE: PHOENIX A Scottsdale psychiatrist has been disciplined by the State Board of Medical Examiners after admitting to prescribing thousands of prescriptions for pain killers -- mostly for himself. Dr. Daniel Glick told Board of Medical Examiners members that pain in his back forced him to need ten to twelve doses of the powerful narcotic Lortab a day [...]
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City News Service No City News Service material may be republished without the express written permission of City News Service, Inc. February 6, 2001, Tuesday Psychiatrist Sentenced to Five Years in Jail LENGTH: 366 words DATELINE: LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles psychiatrist was sentenced to five years in jail for illegally prescribing dangerous narcotics to two people with histories of psychiatric and drug problems. Dr. William Leader, 42, who has an office in the Mid-City district, was sentenced late yesterday by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Josh Fredricks. A jury convicted the doctor of 14 counts of illegally prescribing a [...]
Chicago Sun-Times January 20, 2001, SATURDAY, Late Sports Final Edition 'Monkey doctor' witness for Lemak BYLINE: BY ART GOLAB SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4 LENGTH: 334 words Prosecutors sparred Friday with lawyers for Marilyn Lemak over whether the Naperville woman should be allowed to offer testimony from a psychiatrist prosecutors belittled as "the monkey doctor." Dr. William McKinney hasn't examined Lemak, who is accused of murdering her three young children. But her lawyers want him to testify that depression can make a person insane -- her defense. Prosecutors argued before Judge George Bakalis that most of the doctor's research has involved [...]
The Houston Chronicle June 06, 2004, Sunday 2 STAR EDITION Texas case points to wider abuse issue; Nationwide lack of reporting leaves public in dark about doctor misconduct SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram BYLINE: JAN JARVIS SECTION: A; Pg. 34 LENGTH: 757 words Six years before the Texas medical board temporarily suspended the license of child psychiatrist Donald Hughes based on sexual misconduct allegations, he was accused of similar behavior at one hospital and reprimanded for late-night visits to patients' rooms at another. One hospital restricted him from seeing adolescent patients after 10 p.m.; the other required him to quit seeing [...]
Portland Press Herald (Maine) September 20, 2006 Wednesday YORK Edition Physician suspended for ignoring counseling order BYLINE: From staff reports SECTION: LOCAL & STATE; Dispatches; Pg. B2 LENGTH: 95 words DATELINE: KENNEBUNK A Kennebunk physician was suspended from practicing medicine Tuesday by the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine. The state agency said that Sarah E. Babine, a psychiatrist, failed to comply with an order issued in July, when she was found to have engaged in habitual substance abuse and ordered to undergo monitoring and counseling. The board said failure to comply with that order represented ''an imminent danger to [...]
Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee) September 13, 2006 Wednesday SECTION: SOUTHEAST TENNESSEE; Pg. b1 LENGTH: 305 words JASPER Grand jury gets I-24 shooting case Aggravated assault charges were bound over to a grand jury Tuesday against Alex Fider, a Shelbyville, Tenn., psychiatrist accused of shooting into a van on Interstate 24. Marion County General Sessions Court Judge Mark Raines sent the case to the grand jury during a 45-minute preliminary hearing. Dr. Fider, who worked at the VA hospital in Murfreesboro, has been out on bond since the Aug. 20 incident. He was ordered back to court Oct. 13 to [...]
Charlotte Observer (North Carolina) October 5, 1996 Saturday ONE-3 EDITION PSYCHIATRIST IS DISCIPLINED AGAIN BYLINE: KAREN GARLOCH, Staff Writer SECTION: METRO; Pg. 1C LENGTH: 348 words A Charlotte psychiatrist who gave up his medical privileges in 1989 after admitting he had sexual relationships with two patients has been disciplined again, for making inappropriate statements to patients. In 1993, the N.C. Medical Board reinstated Dr. Robert Shive's license with certain conditions, but after meeting with Shive this summer, the board reprimanded him for "having made inappropriate statements to two of his female patients" during therapy sessions. In a consent order dated [...]
The Union Leader (Manchester NH) October 4, 2006 Wednesday STATE EDITION House candidate had M.D. license pulled BYLINE: By JOHN DiSTASO, Senior Political Reporter SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A8 LENGTH: 611 words CONCORD -- A retired psychiatrist running for the state House of Representatives had his medical license suspended in 1995 after a patient accused him of having a two-year sexual relationship with her. The patient abruptly withdrew the complaint against Dr. Edward L. Rowan of Exeter about a week after it was filed in October 1993, but the state Board of Medicine continued to investigate the charge as possible physician [...]