MEDIA
James Grigson – most controversial psychiatrist in the United States (1981)
The Washington Post Life or Death: It's All in Your Mind -- or His By Fred Barbash February 27, 1981 Psychiatrist James Grigson At least 50 times in the past few years, Dallas psychiatrist James Grigson has appeared in court for prosecutors seeking the death penalty and has predicted that criminal defendants would, without question, always be dangerous. And at least 50 times, juries have heeded his words and sentenced the defendant to die. By now, it is a routine. Grigson examines the defendant for about 90 minutes, and later appears before the jury, when it is considering whether [...]
John Hopper
United Press International By JUDI HASSON March 18, 1983 White House press secretary James Brady and two law enforcement officers, shot by John W. Hinckley Jr. during an assassination attempt on President Reagan, are suing his psychiatrist for $14 million, charging that he misdiagnosed the gunman before the shooting. The civil suit, filed today in U.S. District Court in Denver, also accused Dr. John J. Hopper Jr. of negligently prescribing Valium and biofeedback therapy for Hinckley in the months before he pushed through a knot of people and fired a pistol at Reagan and his entourage. ''Dr. Hopper knew or [...]
George Hibbert, UK “Leading Psychiatrist” – misleading and dishonest actions – faces malpractice charge
Swindon Advertiser Psychiatrist faces malpractice charge By Dominic Gilbert February 5, 2014 Psychiatrist George Hibbert A LEADING psychiatrist from Blunsdon is facing a fitness to practice hearing later this month into allegations of malpractice between June and September 2007. Dr George Hibbert, who held sway over the fate of hundreds of parents and their children at the Tadpole Cottage assessment centre in Blunsdon, faces allegations he failed to provide good clinical care to a patient. The Adver previously reported allegations surrounding the doctor, who has been fighting every step of the way and in 2012 even offered to surrender [...]
Mark Willner, South Florida Psychiatrist, convicted on Medicare fraud charges
Agents with the FBI and Investigations Division of the Office of the Inspector General are seen outside the American Therapeutic Corp. building in October 2010 in Miami. Federal agents raided the building during an operation that resulted in the arrest of four in what is being called one of the nation's biggest Medicare fraud cases. Miami Herald MEDICARE FRAUD Two South Florida doctors, 3 others convicted on Medicare fraud charges A Miami federal jury convicted five people of Medicare-related fraud in a case involving the nation’s biggest mental-health racket. By Jay Weaver Two South Florida doctors stared in [...]
Kathryn Neraas, Washington State Psychiatrist, Suspended because of Mental Impairment
What the below press release does not say (see here) is that the Washington Physicians Health Program (WPHP) received calls from several of Neraas' "professional and social contacts" notifying them they the needed to contact Neraas. The mission of the WPHP is "to facilitate the rehabilitation of healthcare providers who have physical or mental conditions that could compromise public safety and to monitor their recovery". Psychiatrist Kathryn Neraas Neraas refused to "provide written documentation of her current mental health treatment" and refused WPHP permission to "speak with her treatment providers". The WPHP labeled her "hypomanic". Psychiatrist Charles Meredith, the [...]
Alberto Ayala, Coral Gables Psychiatrist, convicted on Medicare fraud charges
Agents with the FBI and Investigations Division of the Office of the Inspector General are seen outside the American Therapeutic Corp. building in October 2010 in Miami. Federal agents raided the building during an operation that resulted in the arrest of four in what is being called one of the nation's biggest Medicare fraud cases. Miami Herald MEDICARE FRAUD Two South Florida doctors, 3 others convicted on Medicare fraud charges A Miami federal jury convicted five people of Medicare-related fraud in a case involving the nation’s biggest mental-health racket. By Jay Weaver Two South Florida doctors stared in [...]
Alan Gumer, Tamarac Psychiatrist, pleaded guilty for more than $19 million of false claims
Agents with the FBI and Investigations Division of the Office of the Inspector General are seen outside the American Therapeutic Corp. building in October 2010 in Miami. Federal agents raided the building during an operation that resulted in the arrest of four in what is being called one of the nation's biggest Medicare fraud cases. Miami Herald MEDICARE FRAUD Two South Florida doctors, 3 others convicted on Medicare fraud charges A Miami federal jury convicted five people of Medicare-related fraud in a case involving the nation’s biggest mental-health racket. By Jay Weaver Two South Florida doctors stared in [...]
Psychiatrist Koichi Takeda, Japan, arrested, carried out other obscene acts against patients
Mainichi Japan Psychiatrist arrested for allegedly hugging, kissing patient at clinic December 7, 2018 TOKYO -- A 61-year-old psychiatrist has been arrested on suspicion of forcible indecency against a female patient at his clinic here after he allegedly hugged and kissed her, the Metropolitan Police Department's Akasaka Police Station announced on Dec. 6. According to the police, Koichi Takeda, 61, the head of Minamiaoyama Mental Clinic, allegedly hugged a patient in her 20s, kissed her and carried out other obscene acts in the clinic's consulting room in Tokyo's Minato Ward at around 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 8. The police said [...]
David Abramson, Harvard Psychiatrist, sued for “negligence and carelessness” in $20 million lawsuit
Harvard Crimson Harvard Faces Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over 2015 Student Suicide By Delano R. Franklin November 30, 2018 Psychiatrist David Abramson Harvard is currently facing a wrongful death lawsuit accusing the University and several of its employees of negligence in their care for a Harvard undergraduate, Luke Z. Tang ’18, who died by suicide in Sept. 2015. The student’s father, Wendell W. Tang, filed the suit in the Middlesex County Superior Court on Sept. 11, one day shy of the three-year anniversary of his son’s death. The complaint names the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — [...]