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Alexander Grinberg, San Francisco Psychiatrist – Judge wants to know more about his “probationary status arising out of complaints of unprofessional conduct and gross negligence”
Herald Mail Media Jailed Russian of interest in US election probe, official says By Kartikay Mehrotra August 25, 2018 SAN FRANCISCO — A Russian charged with hacking LinkedIn is of great interest in a U.S. probe of election meddling, according to a Justice Department official, even as his own lawyers complain he hasn’t cooperated with them since landing in a California jail in March. The mystery around Yevgeniy Nikulin deepened Friday when a federal judge asked why his lawyers, who want him evaluated for possible mental illness, chose a San Francisco psychiatrist with a troubled past at California’s medical board. [...]
Gerald Klee, Psychiatrist, did LSD Experiments on U.S. Soldiers
UPI Psychiatrist in Army LSD experiments dies March. 9, 2013 Psychiatrist Gerald Klee Gerald D. Klee, a psychiatrist involved in secret research in which U.S. soldiers were given LSD in the 1950s, has died in Maryland, his family said. He was 86. Klee, an expert on the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD, died Sunday of complications from surgery at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, north of Baltimore, The Baltimore Sun reported. The psychiatrist made headlines in 1975 when he confirmed the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Psychiatric Institute was involved in [...]
Harmadan Singh, UK Psychiatrist, “Tried to Manipulate My Mind”
Welwyn Hatfield Times Sex assault doctor ‘was trying to manipulate my mind’ says victim March 25, 2013 By David Burke Psychiatrist Harmadan Singh A woman who was sexually assaulted by a psychiatrist at the QE2 Hospital in WGC has accused her tormentor of trying to manipulate her mind. Shamed Dr Harmadan Singh was spared jail by a judge, but told he was unlikely to ever practice again. Jurors heard the 67-year-old had touched the patient in a sexual way during a consultation, and had made her undress. The assault was branded a “breach of trust” which caused the 30-year-old [...]
Seamus Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish Psychiatrist – Bites Cops – To Be Sentenced Next Month
The Irish Times Psychiatrist who bit gardaí to be sentenced next month Consultant employed by HSE in Limerick had to be restrained before arrest Mar 27, 2013 Psychiatrist Seamus O Flaithbheartaigh A consultant psychiatrist employed by the HSE [Irish health agency] who bit two gardaí [police officers] and a bar worker after he was arrested following a night out socialising in Limerick is to be sentenced next month. Seamus Ó Flaithbheartaigh (51), from Castlemara, Annacotty, who is employed by the HSE in Limerick, had to be restrained before gardaí arrested him on Denmark Street on July 7th last. He [...]
Shekhar Chandra, UK Psychiatrist, lost license for sexual misconduct with a patient and for dishonesty
The BMJ Tribunal made error in allowing psychiatrist back on register, says appeal court August 14, 2018 By Clare Dyer A medical practitioners’ tribunal that let a struck-off psychiatrist back onto the UK medical register made “an error of principle” in the way it made the decision, three Court of Appeal judges have ruled unanimously. The tribunal had “applied the wrong test” when it restored Shekhar Chandra to the register, the judges held. It had relied almost exclusively on the issue of whether he had remediated his behaviour and failed properly to understand the central importance of the need to [...]
Pittsburgh psychiatrist Kenneth Stanko sued for allegedly hooking patient on oxycodone
PennRecord Court rules against troubled Pittsburgh psychiatrist sued for allegedly hooking patient on oxycodone By Erianne Leatherman August 14, 2018 PITTSBURGH – A civil court has overruled preliminary objections in a professional negligence lawsuit filed by a Pittsburgh man against his psychiatrist, who allegedly overprescribed oxycodone, resulting in his dependency and addiction to the drug. In a Jan. 5 filing in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, plaintiff Regan DiCarlo sued defendants Kenneth Stanko, M.D.; Bloomfield Health Mart; Pharmacy, Inc.; Bloomfield Drug Store and James Koll, RPh. DiCarlo is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, as well as lawyer [...]
No Science – Psychs Change their Minds
Atlanta Journal-Constitution State experts change opinions in condemned killer’s case By Bill Rankin Feb. 14, 2013 Psychiatrist Thomas Sachy Days before condemned killer Warren Lee Hill’s is scheduled to die, the same state experts who testified Hill was eligible for execution now say they were wrong, according to affidavits released Thursday. Hill is to die by lethal injection on Tuesday at 7 p.m. His lawyers have already asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution. On Thursday, they said they will soon ask a state court judge to consider the doctors’ new statements and will use them when [...]
David Cardwell, Austin Psychiatrist, charged with felonious sexual assault of a patient
American-Statesman Police: Psychiatrist sexually assaulted patient March 8, 2013 By Ciara O'Rourke Psychiatrist David Cardwell An Austin psychiatrist accused of raping a longtime patient has been charged with sexual assault, a second-degree felony. David Cardwell, 64, saw the patient in January because her husband was concerned about her mental health, saying that she had been depressed, according to an affidavit for Cardwell’s arrest. Cardwell gave the woman two pills that made her feel groggy before he put her head on his chest and ran his hands through her hair and over her back, the affidavit says. He later put [...]
Edward Hallowell, Mass. Psychiatrist, “Expert on ADHD”, charged with grabbing butt
WCVB Edward Hallowell, noted psychiatrist, charged with indecent assault Hallowell a specialist in ADD, ADHD May 11, 2015 Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell WALTHAM, Mass. — A noted specialist in the fields of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is facing charges related to the alleged groping of a woman. Dr. Edward M. Hallowell, who was in Waltham District Court on Monday for a hearing on the charge of indecent assault, is accused of squeezing the buttocks of a makeup artist last October. Watch NewsCenter 5's report Hallowell, a psychiatrist and instructor at Harvard Medical School, was videotaping an [...]
Sridhar Yaratha, Virginia VA psychiatrist, in hot water In three states, Suspended in West Virginia and Iowa amid allegations of alcoholism and sexual misconduct – in Virginia involved in violence against patient
Virginian Pilot State doctor arranged for one mental health patient to attack another, federal judge rules By Scott Daugherty August 6, 2018 Psychiatrist Sridhar Yaratha A doctor at a state mental hospital arranged for one patient to attack another at least three times, a federal judge has ruled. In return, according to court testimony, the attacker was rewarded with extra food, alcohol and drugs. Following a seven-day trial in Norfolk, U.S. District Judge Henry C. Morgan Jr. ordered two former staff members of Central State Hospital in Petersburg to pay $385,000 in damages, plus interest. In a 31-page opinion, he [...]