MEDIA
Feds make Medicare fraud sweeps in Miami, nationwide
The Miami Herald Feds make Medicare fraud sweeps in Miami, nationwide By JAY WEAVER February 18, 2011 Miami lived up to its billing as the nation’s Medicare fraud capital on Thursday when authorities announced they charged more than 100 doctors, nurses and executives nationwide with conspiring to loot $225 million from the federal health insurance program. About one-third of the 111 people charged were from Miami. The takedown here and in eight other cities was touted by the Obama administration as the largest number of healthcare fraud arrests in U.S. history. The coordinated announcement of numerous indictments at press conferences [...]
Joel H. Feigon
The Boston Herald Sex-case doc called `victim of patients' By Kathryn Marchocki September 13, 1992 The attorney for a Cambridge psychiatrist whose license was ordered revoked last week in a sexual misconduct case yesterday portrayed the doctor as a victim of his female colleague and former patient, whom he had fallen deeply in love with and hoped to marry. "He was head-over-heels, madly in love with her," attorney Camille Sarrouf said of Dr. Joel H. Feigon, 60, and the female psychotherapist who first came to him in 1973 as a patient. Feigon left his wife of some 20 years to [...]
“Respected” Psych Expected to be Taken into Custody
Austin American-Statesman Former state psychiatrist charged with public lewdness By Andrea Ball and Eric Dexheimer Jan. 23, 2013 Charles Fischer waits in the elevator after appearing in court at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center on July 12, 2012 The psychiatrist facing felony charges that he molested five adolescent psychiatric patients under his care while he worked at the Austin State Hospital was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with public lewdness, according to police records. Charles Fischer was taken into custody at around 1 p.m. on Rollingwood Drive just west of MoPac (Loop 1) near Barton Springs Road, according to [...]
Surendra Chaganti – St. Louis Psychiatrist Reprimanded
St. Louis Post Dispatch Reprimand against psychiatrist Chaganti will stand after four-year battle By Blythe Bernhard August 2, 2014 Psychiatrist Surendra Chaganti A state reprimand against Dr. Surendra Chaganti, a St. Louis psychiatrist accused more than four years ago of unprofessional conduct and negligence, will stand, a Cole County judge has ruled. Last November, Chaganti received a reprimand from the Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts for failing to report all of his past hospital affiliations when applying to renew his privileges at two hospitals. A judge in January granted Chaganti’s request for a stay on the [...]
Ellis Schwied – Orange County Psychiatrist’s License Suspended – gross negligence – developed relationship with patient’s mother, diagnosed patient with social anxiety and general anxiety disorder without an “adequate basis”
Orange County Register Laguna Niguel psychiatrist disciplined for dispensing meds without prescription By Jenna Chandler September 29, 2014 Laguna Niguel-based psychiatrist Ellis Michael Schwied had his license suspended by the California Medical Board after he was accused of giving a patient samples of a depression medication without a prescription. According to the medical board, Schwied gave samples of Lexapro to the 20-year-old patient’s mother and also left them in unmarked brown paper bags on her porch. “He is a well-respected psychiatrist in the community,” said Schwied’s attorney, Joel Bruce Douglas. “There was no malice or ill will, maybe just not [...]
Sue Sisley – Psychiatrist Canned by University of Arizona
Medscape Psychiatrist Fired as 'Payback' for Marijuana Research? Deborah Brauser July 21, 2014 Psychiatrist Sue Sisley A psychiatrist and researcher from the University of Arizona claims the school fired her because of her advocacy on behalf of a controversial, federally approved study investigating marijuana as a potential treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans. News of the dismissal of Sue Sisley, MD, from her various positions at the university has garnered widespread media attention, including a televised interview with CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. In addition, a petition launched last week calling for her reinstatement has already [...]
Cold War Russian Psychiatrist Yan Goland Uses Hypnosis to “Cure” Gays
BuzzFeed This Russian Psychiatrist Will Cure Your Gayness Through Hypnosis “Distinguished Doctor of the Russian Federation” Yan Goland started “curing” gays, lesbians, and transsexuals when gay sex was outlawed in the Soviet Union, and is still at it today. By Max Seddon August 13, 2013 Meet Dr. Yan Goland, a psychiatrist in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Psychiatrist Yan Goland According to the Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Dr. Goland is the only doctor in the country who cures patients of their homosexual desires - none of his Soviet-era colleagues are left. “They tried to cure them through castration, hormone therapy, [...]
A Pitchfork to the Temple
Dec 2018 A Pitchfork to the Temple The last memories pigs have before they are slaughtered are electrodes being attached to their heads. A moment later they are stunned with a jolt of electricity that blasts its way through their brains. This induces an epileptic seizure which renders the hog insensate, not responsive to any stimuli, and floppy. They are now ready to be butchered. This very scene of pigs being shocked into unconscious numbness on their way to the slaughterhouse was the the twisted revelation that inspired the invention of psychiatry’s most deadly legacy: shock therapy. It’s hard to [...]
Brent Cox, Mill Valley Psychiatrist, Suspended for Missing his Own Mental Exam
The Marin Independent Journal Marin psychiatrist has license suspended for missing his own mental exam By Gary Klien, February 1, 2013 The state medical board suspended the license of a Mill Valley psychiatrist Thursday for failing to show up for a mandatory psychiatric examination. The board ordered Dr. Brent Taylor Cox to get the test last year after a complaint that he "may be suffering from a substance addiction disorder and/or other mental impairment that may affect his ability to practice medicine safely," according to board documents. The board said Cox did not arrive for his scheduled exam, even though [...]
Psychiatrist Jerome Feldman, Daytona Beach, Sold Non-Existent Body Parts
News-Journal (Daytona Beach, Florida) Failed transplant leads officials to Ormond fugitive June 08, 2009 By Julie Murphy Erwin Langier was promised a lifesaving liver transplant when he traveled to the Philippines last year, but federal officials say instead the Canadian lived out his last days in a foreign hospital, away from his wife. She stayed behind to handle the financial arrangements for her dying husband. And, nearly $100,000 later, what she is left with are memories tainted by the knowledge she was duped by a former Ormond Beach psychiatrist who investigators say started scamming people internationally more than 40 years [...]