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Douglas Zelisko, Hartford psychiatrist, in Hot Water
Douglas Zelisko “The following article was originally published on Inside Investigator” Inside Investigator CT psychiatrist allegedly defrauded patients, supplied them with crack; “The grief is massive.” Marc E. Fitch September 3, 2026 Hartford-based psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Zelisko faces a long list of charges by the Department of Public Health, including presenting his romantic partner as a therapist, fraudulent billing, and supplying both his partner and private practice patients with controlled substances and street drugs, while also being employed by the State of Connecticut as a psychiatrist at Connecticut Valley Hospital. According to the Department of Public Health’s statement of charges [...]
Amy MacIntyre, Main Line psychiatrist, loses license
Amy MacIntyre The Philadelphia Inquirer Main Line psychiatrist stripped of her medical license --Excerpt A Main Line psychiatrist has lost her medical license after a state investigation found she had sex with a young patient for years, all while prescribing him a revolving mix of up to 12 medications, including highly addictive psychotropic drugs, without proper evaluations. Amy Mazza MacIntyre, a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in Bryn Mawr, started treating a then-17-year-old cancer survivor in 2004 when he was a senior at Lower Merion High School. MacIntyre first had sex with him in February 2011, when he was 24 [...]
Samuel Lee, Psychiatrist, Arrested by St. Pete Police
On April 14, 2026, the St. Petersburg Police Department located and apprehended Samuel Byungsung Lee at 4341 34th St. South, Apartment 377, St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida 33711. Samuel Lee Daily Mail Tragedy after woman paid doctor $2,000 for 'clarity' ceremony that saw her take cocktail of ketamine and MDMA --Excerpt A doctor has been accused of fatally feeding a woman drugs as part of a 'heart protocol' ceremony at a wellness house... Now Samuel Lee, 44, has been charged with manslaughter over the so-called 'heart protocol' ceremony that led to her death. He was arraigned on Tuesday. Lee, a [...]
William Hervey, Palm Harbor Psychiatrist, Child Porn
William Hervey Tampa Bay Beacons Pinellas County psychiatrist facing child porn charges --Excerpt PALM HARBOR — A Pinellas County psychiatrist was arrested June 30, after investigators said he possessed child pornography. Detectives with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Investigations Unit said the suspect is 61-year-old William Hervey, a board-certified psychiatrist and owner of Advantage Mental Health Center in Clearwater. The investigation began after authorities said they received information that child pornography files were being accessed and shared online... Excerpted from: Pinellas County psychiatrist facing child porn charges Tampa Bay Beacons July 7, 2026 Read the full original article here. [...]
Louis Morelli, South Jersey psychiatrist, pleaded guilty
Louis Morelli Press Release Cape May County Psychiatrist Admits to 17 Felony Counts for Unlawful Controlled Substance Prescriptions Linked to Sexual Conduct, Risk of Death, and Serious Bodily Injury Wednesday, June 24, 2026 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey CAMDEN, N.J. – A South Jersey psychiatrist admitted to issuing invalid prescriptions for Adderall, Vyvanse, and Xanax, and other drugs, often to his sexual partners and known drug addicts, U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer announced. “Licensed medical professionals who prescribe powerful controlled substances outside the bounds of legitimate medical care put lives at risk and undermine public trust [...]
Jan Cimicky, Czech Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Jan Cimický Radio Prague International Psychiatrist Cimický gets five years for sexual assault, blackmail --Excerpt The well-known Czech psychiatrist Jan Cimický has been sentenced to five years in prison on four counts of sexual assault and 35 cases of blackmail. The 68-year-old has also been barred from practicing medicine for a period of 10 years. Under the verdict, which is not binding, Mr. Cimický must also pay the affected women compensation. They are seeking a total of approximately CZK 6 million in damages from the doctor... Excerpted from: Psychiatrist Cimický gets five years for sexual assault, blackmail By Ian Willoughby [...]
Brian Hyatt, Rogers psychiatrist, arrested
Brian Hyatt KNWA Fayetteville Former Rogers doctor facing Medicaid fraud charges arrested by U.S. Marshals --Excerpt FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Brian Hyatt, a former Northwest Arkansas psychiatrist accused of Medicaid fraud, was arrested Saturday by the U.S. Marshals Service. The 53-year-old was booked into the Washington County Detention Center on March 28 and is being held on a federal detainer... Hyatt previously led the Behavioral Health Unit at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale from Feb. 2018 to May 2022... In addition to criminal charges, Hyatt faces more than 200 civil lawsuits from former patients who allege false imprisonment during his [...]
Iftikhar Rasul, Orlando psychiatrist – license revoked
Iftikhar Rasul Miami Herald What happened after 3 patients said Florida psychiatrist touched their breasts? --Excerpt An Orlando psychiatrist banned from seeing female patients after being accused of molestation now can’t see any patients. A 2025 state Board of Medicine final order that just posted on Feb. 16 revoked Dr. Iftikhar Rasul’s license. Professional justice, as usual, moved at a more stately pace than criminal justice. The Florida Department of Health filed the first administrative complaint, which starts the discipline process, in January 2021 after the first accusation. The next two accusations were grouped in an April 2023 administrative complaint, [...]
Shazia Malik, Missouri psychiatrist, pleaded guilty
Shazia Malik Press Release Psychiatrist Reaches Civil Settlement of $360,000 to Resolve Allegations of False Claims to Federal Health Care Programs Monday, March 9, 2026 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri ST. LOUIS – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and a Missouri psychiatrist have reached a $360,000 civil settlement that will resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations, U.S. Attorney Thomas C Albus announced Monday. The settlement resolves allegations that from Jan. 1, 2019, through May 31, 2024, Dr. Shazia Malik falsely indicated to both Medicare and Missouri Medicaid that she provided [...]
Fez Psychiatrist sentenced to 20 years
Yabiladi Fez psychiatrist sentenced to 20 years for sexually assaulting patients --Excerpt The preliminary criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal in Fez has sentenced a local psychiatrist to 20 years in prison and fined him 200,000 dirhams after convicting him of human trafficking. The case involved the sexual assault of female patients at his private clinic, as well as charges related to the possession and consumption of hard drugs, including heroin, and facilitating their use by others. The psychiatrist, who specialized in treating mental health disorders and addiction, was arrested in June last year following a complaint filed [...]
Walter Crook, Tuscaloosa Psychiatrist, Arrested
Walter Crook Tuscaloosa Thread CyberTip Leads to Bryce Hospital Psychiatrist’s Arrest for Having Child Sex Abuse Material --Excerpt A Cybertip from Google led to last week's arrest of a psychiatrist at Tuscaloosa's Bryce Hospital for possession of child sex abuse material. The accused, 73-year-old Walter Joseph Crook, is reportedly a long-time psychiatrist at the state-run, in-patient Bryce Hospital here in Tuscaloosa. According to court documents filed late last week, Google sent an alert to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children after a user reportedly stored illegal files depicting the sexual abuse of children to their cloud storage service, [...]
Psychiatrist Abby Fredrickson, Moorhead Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Psychiatrist Abby Fredrickson KVRR Woman given probation after pleading guilty to aiding an offender in fatal Moorhead shooting --Excerpt MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) — A psychiatrist who was charged as an accomplice in her then-boyfriend’s fatal drive-by shooting in Moorhead last April is sentenced to probation. 33-year-old Abby Fredrickson pleaded guilty last October to a single count of aiding an offender in the shooting death of 39-year-old James Hamilton by 35-year-old Jerome Thomas. Fredrickson was given a three-year “stayed sentence” of probation during sentencing Monday in Clay County Court... Excerpted from: Woman given probation after pleading guilty to aiding an offender [...]
Jesse Armstrong, UF Psychiatrist, sentenced
Jesse Armstrong Press Release FORMER PHYSICIAN SENTENCED TO OVER SEVEN YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Friday, January 23, 2026 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Florida GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA – Jesse Roger Armstrong, 35, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to ninety months in prison after previously pleading guilty to distribution of child pornography. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. U.S. Attorney Heekin said, “Our state and federal law enforcement partners are committed to identifying, investigating, and rooting out the scourge of exploitation and [...]
Big Pharma’s Evil Playbook
PsychSearch Big Pharma’s Evil Playbook Colin Taufer On July 10, 2010, Stewart Dolin, a happy, funny, loving, wealthy, dedicated husband and father, started taking Paxil, as prescribed by his psychiatrist. Six days later, in the middle of the afternoon, he leapt off a subway platform and into the path of an approaching train. How do the biggest drug pushers poison the world for profit and get away with murder? Just ask GlaxoSmithKline, one of the kingpins in the pill-pushing cartel known as Big Pharma. GSK has perfected the playbook of turning drugs they know to be deadly and dangerous into [...]
Drugging Children for Conformity
PsychSearch Drugging Children for Conformity Colin Taufer Throughout its long history, Ritalin has been a drug in search of a “disorder”. Its manufacturer Ciba (now Novartis) has spent millions on advertising and “doctor education” trying to find and create a profitable “disease” for its drug. In the mid-1950’s Ritalin was advertised as a way to boost spirits and to make patients more cooperative and manageable. Later, in the same decade, Ciba tried another approach and marketed Ritalin as a “safe, effective geriatric supplement”. In the 1960’s promotional focus again shifted and it touted itself as a way to “restore [...]
CONSUMER PROTECTION?
PsychSearch CONSUMER PROTECTION? Colin Taufer Recently, it was reported by the Consumer Product Safety Commission that someone suffered a knee injury after sitting on a brand of bench that collapsed. Six others reported this same bench collapsing but reported no injuries. Consequently, the CPSC told all consumers to stop using these particular benches and return them to their point of purchase for a full refund. Similarly, the CPSC ordered all consumers to stop using, and return for refunds a particular brand of glass dresser knob. The reason? They received two reports of lacerations from broken glass knobs. About 363,000 knobs [...]
John Sappington, Casper Psychiatrist, Threatened to Kill Ex-Wife With Hammer
K2radio Former Casper Psychiatrist Threatened to Kill Ex-Wife With Hammer By Nick Learned June 8, 2020 John Sappington - psychiatrist A former Casper psychiatrist is accused of threatened to kill his ex-wife using a hammer after breaking into her Casper Mountain residence in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to court documents. John Shannon Sappington, 58, was booked into jail on recommended charges of attempted robbery, attempted aggravated burglary, aggravated assault and felony property destruction, a Natrona County Sheriff's Office spokesperson told K2 Radio News on Monday. Authorities say dispatchers were notified of two [...]
Irene Gurvits, NY psychiatrist, described as “nuts,” “evil” and “dangerous”, has lost her license
New York Post State yanks license of NYC shrink patients called ‘nuts’ By Melissa Klein June 13, 2020 Irene Gurvits - psychiatrist An Upper West Side shrink whose patients described her as “nuts,” “evil” and “dangerous” has finally lost her medical license — eight years after the state was flagged about her odd behavior. The state Board for Professional Medical Conduct’s concluded that Dr. Irene Gurvits “was not addressing her own psychiatric problems.” Its action came almost a decade after the state first learned she was ill — when her own lawyer asked that she get psychiatric help, [...]
NY Shrink Irene Gurvits – Licensed Pulled Due to Bizarre Behavior
The Jewish Voice Upper West Side Shrink Gets Licensed Pulled Due to Bizarre Behavior By Denis Cyr June 17, 2020 Irene Gurvits - psychiatrist After a series of incredible complaints, an Upper West Side shrink by the name of Dr. Irene G. Gurvits has had her license revoked by the state. In a story that seems like a plot of a comedy movie, a psychiatrist lost her license because of her own mental illness. After a series of incredible complaints, an Upper West Side shrink by the name of Dr. Irene G. Gurvits has had her license revoked by [...]
Christopher Seman, Ohio Psychiatrist, license suspended
The Review County doctor’s license suspended By Katie White September 17, 2018 Christopher Seman - psychiatrist EAST PALESTINE — An East Palestine man’s medical license was suspended this week because of an affair he had with a co-worker while he worked for the Counseling Center between 2013 and 2015 that included writing her prescriptions for an antidepressant, antibiotics, birth control and other non-controlled substances without keeping a medical record. Dr. Christopher Seman’s license to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery in the state of Ohio has been suspended for at least one year following a hearing that included testimony and [...]
Joshua Sonkiss, Alaska psychiatrist, accused of punching a man in grocery store
Anchorage Daily News Alaska psychiatrist is accused of punching a man because he wasn’t wearing a mask in a Juneau grocery store By Michelle Theriault June 18, 2020 Joshua Sonkiss - psychiatrist A prominent Alaska psychiatrist faces a criminal charge for allegedly punching a man in the face for not wearing a face mask in a Juneau Fred Meyer earlier this month. Joshua Sonkiss, 49, was charged with a single count of misdemeanor assault for the incident. He appeared in court Wednesday. The 53-year-old victim, Bowen Dallmann, told police Sonkiss “punched him in the face” for “not wearing a [...]
Charles Marke, Kamloops psychiatrist, reprimanded for sexual misconduct.
Charles Marke, Kamloops psychiatrist CFJC Today DISCIPLINARY ACTION Kamloops psychiatrist disciplined for inappropriate conduct with former patient By James Peters June 02, 2020 KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops psychiatrist has been formally reprimanded for sexual misconduct. In a decision released Monday (June 1), the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia says Dr. Charles James Marke had admitted to the misconduct by “failing to maintain the professional boundaries expected of a registrant.” The incident in question happened one month after Marke concluded treatment with a female patient. According to the disciplinary decision, Marke contacted the former patient and invited her [...]
Ian Anthony Martin, Launceston psychiatrist, notoriously had sex with his clients before hiring a violent criminal to shut one of them up
Hobart Mercury (Australia) New sex counts dropped By Amber Wilson June 3, 2020 Ian Anthony Martin -psychiatrist Disgraced Launceston psychiatrist Ian Anthony Martin, who notoriously had sex with his clients before hiring a violent criminal to shut one of them up, will no longer face court over fresh criminal allegations. The lascivious 74-year-old started a new life in New South Wales after he was struck off as a practitioner in 2005 and jailed at Risdon Prison in 2008. He was due to return to Tasmania this year to face the Supreme Court over allegations of indecent assault and aggravated [...]
Adrian Marsden, UK psychiatrist, arrested – confessed he had ‘fetish” for child abuse images
Daily Mail Paedophile NHS psychiatrist avoids jail after police found vile collection of almost 2,000 child abuse images when he confessed he had 'fetish' By Ieuan Ivett June 5, 2020 Adrian Marsden - psychiatrist An NHS psychiatrist addicted to child abuse images has avoided jail after he was found out when an amateur dramatics coach helped him download a mobile phone app to learn his lines. Charmaine Parkin was shocked to find a thumbnail of a vile image on child psychiatrist Dr Adrian Marsden's device and confronted him. Police later found almost 2,000 sickening images on his [...]
Bernard Murphy, Psychiatrist of Banteer, Cork – crossed “professional boundaries” with a patient
The Irish Times Psychiatrist censured at High Court for crossing professional boundaries The doctor was the subject of complaints by a former patient of six years By Aodhan O'Faolain May 1, 2020 A consultant psychiatrist has been censured at the High Court, with conditions attached to his registration, after he was found to have crossed professional boundaries with a patient. Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds on Friday confirmed the censure and conditions decision by the Medical Council arising from findings of professional misconduct and poor professional performance against Dr Bernard Murphy, of Banteer, Cork. Dr Murphy was the subject of complaints [...]