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Patricia Stamm, San Anselmo psychiatrist, prescribed more than 100 tablets a day of addictive painkillers to a woman later found disoriented in the middle of the street
Pacific Sun (Mill Valley, California) Bitter pills for San Rafael shrink - Psychiatrist gets painful lesson about prescribing painkillers By Ronnie Cohen July 30, 2010 - August 5, 2010 Psychiatrist Patricia Stamm The state medical board has placed a San Rafael psychiatrist on probation and ordered her to study ethics and prescribing practices after she allegedly prescribed more than 100 tablets a day of addictive painkillers to a woman later found disoriented in the middle of the street. Dr. Patricia Stamm faced losing her license to practice medicine in connection with her treatment of the 54-year-old woman who wound [...]
Christopher Rowland, Massachusetts Psychiatrist – sentenced to home confinement – prescribed drugs to addicts – one died of an overdose
The Boston Globe Psychiatrist gets 1-year sentence By Judy Rakowsky November 22, 1996 Psychiatrist Christopher Rowland A Jamaica Plain psychiatrist was sentenced to a year's home confinement yesterday after admitting he prescribed addictive medication to drug-dependent patients, one of whom died of an overdose of heroin and tranquilizers within days of filling his last prescription. Christopher V. Rowland, 62, pleaded guilty in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham to writing illegal prescriptions and also agreed to forfeit his medical license. But relatives of James Romano, who had asked the Board of Registration in Medicine to stop Rowland from writing him [...]
Russell Ferstandig, New Jersey Psychiatrist – patient claims Ferstandig sent him out to buy cocaine
The New York Times RICHARDSON ACCUSES DOCTOR May 7, 1987 Psychiatrist Russell Ferstandig Michael Ray Richardson, the talented but troubled playmaker who was suspended from the National Basketball Association because of repeated cocaine use, charged yesterday that a New Jersey psychiatrist treating him for addiction last year once sent him out to buy cocaine. ''He sent me to get the drug for lab purposes,'' Richardson said at a news conference called to announce a malpractice suit against Dr. Russell Ferstandig. ''He said he wanted to see what I was smoking and how he could treat me.'' Richardson, who says [...]
Gregory Villabona, Delaware Psychiatrist, has history of sexual offenses
The News Journal Despite history of sexual offenses, Dover psychiatrist continues to practice By Margie Fishman March 15, 2018 Psychiatrist Gregory VillaBona A Dover psychiatrist whose license has been on probation off and on for 15 years for sexual offenses and other violations is still seeing patients, despite a recent complaint by the Department of Justice that says he gave a handgun and switchblade to a patient and ingested that patient's prescribed stimulants. Gregory Villabona has been under investigation by the Attorney General's Office since 2016, an office spokesman said. According to the AG's September complaint filed with the [...]
Sajadi Cyrus, Houston Psychiatrist – license revoked after criminal conviction
Excerpted from disciplinary record: HEARING CONDUCTED BY THE TEXAS STATE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS SOAH DOCKET NO. 503-17-5688.MD TEXAS MEDICAL LICENSE NO. G-1766 FINDINGS OF FACT Psychiatrist Sajadi Cyrus 1. Cyrus Sajadi, M.D. (Respondent) holds a medical license in Texas issued by the Texas Medical Board (Board) or its predecessor. 2. On March 12, 2014, a jury convicted Respondent of six felony counts in United States v. Cyrus Sajadi, Case No. 4:11CR00861-002, in the United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. Respondent was convicted of the following offenses (in the order they appear in the [...]
Wayne Funk, El Cajon psychiatrist, collected surplus drugs from patients – then distributed them out of a basket on his office counter
San Diego Union-Tribune Doctor accused of dispensing surplus pills February 3, 2009 By David Hasemyer Psychiatrist Wayne Funk An 87-year-old El Cajon psychiatrist is facing disciplinary action by the Medical Board of California, accused of collecting surplus narcotics from patients and distributing them to other patients out of a basket on his office counter. The Medical Board says Wayne Funk was negligent in handing out powerful and addictive pain pills and sedatives that had been prescribed for other patients but were returned to his office unused. Funk, licensed in California since 1954, is facing the revocation of his license [...]
John Namala Samuel Rajaratnam
OCWeekly Antipsychotic Meds Incident in Maryland Spurs OC Psychiatrist’s License Discipline By Matt Coker March 19, 2018 A Huntington Beach psychiatrist had his license to practice medicine suspended in California on Thursday, essentially because he had directed a former patient in Maryland to share her prescription of an antipsychotic medication with her minor son. The Maryland State Board of Physicians previously revoked Dr. John Namala Samuel Rajaratnam’s license to practice in that state because he failed to meet with a psychiatrist the board had referred him to see as part of the discipline from the prescription incident. In a letter [...]
Bruce Lief, Philly Psychiatrist, Criminally Charged with Illegally Prescribing Opioids
attorneygeneral.gov Press Release Attorney General Josh Shapiro: Two PA Doctors Charged in Separate Schemes to Illegally Prescribe Opioid Pain Pills March 8, 2018 Psychiatrist Bruce Lief Philadelphia psychiatrist charged in diversion of 24,000 Pills for Cash; Blair County pediatrician charged with diverting opioids to a paramour HARRISBURG — Reflecting the pervasive impact of the opioid epidemic in every corner of Pennsylvania, Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced charges in two separate cases against a Philadelphia psychiatrist and a Blair County pediatrician for illegally prescribing opioids and other drugs to patients. Dr. Bruce Lief, 77, of Wayne, a Philadelphia psychiatrist, [...]
Melvyn Iscove, Toronto Psychiatrist, Had Sex with Gay Patients to “Cure” Them of Homosexuality
Toronto Star Psychiatrist who treated patients for their homosexuality had sex with male patients in his office By Jacques Gallant arch 9, 2018 A long-time Toronto psychiatrist, who believes homosexuality is a “sexual disorder” that can be overcome, has been found guilty by Ontario’s medical regulator of sexually abusing two of his male patients. Dr. Melvyn Iscove, 72, was described in a decision of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s discipline committee as having a “special interest in the treatment of patients with problems related to homosexuality.” He also engaged in mutual masturbation and oral sex with two [...]
UK PSYCHIATRIST DAVID BALDWIN CATCHES HELL FOR “DANGEROUS CLAIM” OF “WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS DISAPPEARING WITHIN TWO WEEKS OF STOPPING ANTIDEPRESSANTS”
The Herald (Glasgow) Anger over 'dangerous claims' by psychiatrists By Helen McArdle March 12, 2018 Psychiatrist David Baldwin MENTAL health experts have accused leading psychiatrists of making a "potentially dangerous" claim that most patients' withdrawal symptoms have disappeared within two weeks of stopping antidepressants. A letter signed by dozens of psychiatrists, academics and patients, including in Scotland, has called on the president and the chairman of the Royal College of Psychiatrists to issue an urgent correction. They said the goal of their complaint "is to correct a potentially dangerous misleading public statement". It comes after Professor Wendy Burn, [...]