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The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) October 24, 2012 Wednesday Dover doctor pleads guilty, gets prison term BYLINE: By, Sean O'Sullivan SECTION: CRIME & COURTS LENGTH: 350 words The News Journal A former Dover psychiatrist who was accused of improperly prescribing painkillers and defrauding the state's Medicaid program of more than $172,000 admitted guilt Tuesday, was fined and sentenced to a year in prison. Yvette K. Baker, 53, admitted to four felony counts of health care fraud and two misdemeanor charges of false representation and making a false statement in Kent County Superior Court. Baker, who has been incarcerated since she [...]
San Antonio Express-News October 8, 2011 Saturday STATE&METRO Edition Checking account costs doc his license BYLINE: Karisa King, STAFF SECTION: METRO AND STATE NEWS; Pg. 1B LENGTH: 616 words More than two years after the Texas Medical Board reprimanded a San Antonio psychiatrist for having sex with a woman he was treating, the agency has revoked the doctor's license for overstepping boundaries with another patient. Alan T. Lloyd, 51, who most recently worked at the Laurel Ridge Treatment Center, lost his license last month after the board concluded he had opened a joint checking account with the patient. The board [...]
Times-Picayune (New Orleans) April 14, 2011 Thursday Correction Appended Doctor guilty in porn case ; Covington psychiatrist pleads to lesser charge BYLINE: Ramon Antonio Vargas St. Tammany bureau SECTION: METRO; Pg. B 01 LENGTH: 496 words A retired Covington psychiatrist booked in 2008 with possessing more than 100 sexually explicit pictures of children on his computer has pleaded guilty to less severe charges. Dr. Steve Taylor, 71, admitted to attempted possession of juvenile pornography during a hearing at the St. Tammany Parish courthouse in Covington on Tuesday, according to the district attorney's office. In exchange for his plea, state Judge [...]
The Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee) September 7, 2011 Wednesday Neuroscience causes court headaches BYLINE: By, Tom Wilemon | The Tennessean SECTION: NEWS LENGTH: 579 words A Jackson psychiatrist sentenced to prison this year for defrauding Medicare said the blood flow in his brain would prove he was telling the truth. That might sound like a defense strategy that only a psychiatrist could dream up, but questions about neuroscience are increasingly causing courtroom quandaries. The psychiatrist, Dr. Lorne Allan Semrau, has filed an appeal saying that the federal judge in his case erred by refusing to allow evidence from a brain scan [...]
Daily News (New York) December 23, 2004 Thursday SPORTS FINAL EDITION PILL-PUSH DOC GETS OFF EASY BYLINE: BY Helen Peterson SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 37 LENGTH: 152 words A PARK AVENUE psychiatrist who was accused of doling out prescription drugs like candy when he was arrested last year walked away with community service yesterday. Dr. Ahron Friedberg, 41, pleaded guilty to a low-level misdemeanor for writing a prescription for a patient's wife in exchange for a sentence of 1,000 hours of community service. Friedberg had been charged with five counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance when he was arrested [...]
Chicago Daily Herald June 8, 2005 Wednesday Lake Edition; Cook Edition Psychiatrist gets 7-year sentence for sex abuse BYLINE: Tony Gordon, Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4 LENGTH: 230 words A Long Grove psychiatrist was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday after admitting he molested three young boys. Gary Almy, 61, molested the boys while they were attending the Truth in Action Academy that Almy ran in his home at 3115 Old McHenry Road. The academy was a privately operated counseling center for troubled youths. Lake County Assistant State's Attorney Ken LaRue said Almy plead guilty [...]
Ginari Price, Fayetteville Psychiatrist, signed more than a thousand prescriptions – from her jail cell
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution DEA: Husband, nurses illegally sign 1K prescriptions while psychiatrist was jailed for DUI Updated Jan 28, 2019 By Zachary Hansen, Psychiatrist Ginari Price Authorities said a psychiatrist signed more than a thousand prescriptions in Fayetteville — from her jail cell. Her husband and two of her nurse practitioners joined her in jail after allegedly writing those prescriptions without a license, Channel 2 Action News reported. Dr. Ginari Price, of Psycare LLC off Devant Street, was in jail for allegedly driving under the influence and hitting two cars while her infant was in her lap, Channel 2 [...]
The Journal News (Westchester County, New York) December 8, 2012 Saturday 1 Edition New City psychiatrist, 82, sentenced BYLINE: By, Erik Shilling SECTION: A; Pg. 3 LENGTH: 388 words An 82-year-old New City psychiatrist who has admitted to illegally giving out prescription drugs was sentenced Friday to three months' home confinement, a year's probation and a $1,000 fine. Dr. Aristide Esser faced up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in June before U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas in White Plains. But on Friday Karas largely agreed with the lower end of federal guidelines, which didn't call [...]
Hartford Courant (Connecticut) September 21, 2011 Wednesday FINAL - 5 EDITION STATE REVOKES PSYCHIATRIST'S LICENSE; GERSON STERNSTEIN ALSO FINED $50,000 FOR OVERMEDICATING 10 DRUG-ADDICTED PATIENTS; MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD BYLINE: JOSH KOVNER, jkovner@courant.com SECTION: CTNOW; Pg. B1 LENGTH: 835 words DATELINE: HARTFORD -- In trying to salvage his client's medical license, Dr. Gerson Sternstein's lawyer argued that the Berlin psychiatrist selflessly treated a class of patients that few other doctors would touch: chronic-pain patients with a history of drug abuse. The contention failed to mollify the Connecticut Medical Examining Board, which on Tuesday revoked Sternstein's license and fined him $50,000 for [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire December 8, 2011 Thursday 3:53 AM GMT Child psychiatrist gets a year in prison for porn SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 270 words DATELINE: BILLINGS Mont. A former child and adolescent psychiatrist from Billings who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography was sentenced Wednesday to about a year in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Jack Shanstrom sentenced 49-year-old James H. Peak to a year and one day in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Peak also must register as a sex offender. Prosecutors say he went to the FBI in February [...]
Monterey County Herald (California) March 15, 2009 Sunday Accused Soledad prison doctors were tracked BYLINE: By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY Herald Salinas Bureau SECTION: LOCAL LENGTH: 1245 words State investigators used GPS tracking devices, cell phone records and rental car receipts to determine if five doctors at Salinas Valley State Prison were falsifying their billing hours. Grand jury transcripts, unsealed at The Herald's request, indicate the state opened its investigation after another psychiatrist at the Soledad prison complained in a letter to one of his legislators. With the prison's cooperation, investigators began monitoring the doctors' movements by collecting security videos and entry [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire January 10, 2012 Tuesday 7:33 PM GMT Doctor accused of overbilling surrenders license SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL LENGTH: 147 words DATELINE: SALINAS Calif. A California doctor accused of fraudulently overbilling the state is surrendering his license. Dr. David Hoban allegedly billed the state for 242 hours while he was chief psychiatrist at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, the Monterey County Herald ( http://bit.ly/y22jwa) reported Tuesday. In November 2008, an indictment was filed against six doctors, including Hoban, in Monterey County Superior Court. It alleged the state prison was overbilled by $160,000. The [...]
Stanley Kanter, nationally known Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, surrenders medical license – allegations of sex abuse
The Boston Globe Psychiatrist accused of abuse agrees to shut down practice By Alison Bass, Globe Staff July 15, 1992 A nationally known Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, already charged with sexually abusing one female patient, has agreed to stop practicing medicine in the wake of three new allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Dr. Stanley S. Kanter, known for his work in group therapy, will officially give up his medical license on Oct. 1 under the arrangement made with the Board of Registration in Medicine last week. The resignation means he can never again practice medicine in Massachusetts or any [...]
Margaret Bean-Bayog, Massachusetts Psychiatrist, accused of sexual misconduct, psychiatric malpractice and wrongful death
The Boston Globe Written records cover case notes, letters, fantasy By Don Aucoin April 6, 1992 The case of a Lexington psychiatrist and the patient she is accused of driving to suicide has unfolded publicly to an unusual extent because of a voluminous written record that includes three major groups: case notes, sexual fantasies, and correspondence between the pair. While such records are not uncommon in psychiatric cases, they are not usually available at this early stage of a case. This documentary evidence was attached on March 26 to a civil lawsuit filed late last year at Middlesex Superior Court [...]
Harold Goldberg, Massachusetts Psychiatrist, suspended, 11-year sexual relationship with a patient
The Boston Globe Center suspends director; Psychiatrist admits sexual relationship with private patient By Dolores Kong June 2, 1989 The director of the state-run West-Ros-Park Mental Health Center has been suspended without pay after admitting he had an 11-year sexual relationship with a patient he was treating in his private psychiatry practice. Dr. Harold L. Goldberg, 53, of Needham, was suspended last week by the Department of Mental Health, which plans to review his performance during his 27 years with the state in light of the admission, a spokeswoman said. The agency acted after it learned that the Board of [...]
Ajit Trikha, Illinois Psychiatrist, Sentenced for Defrauding Medicare $1.755 million
Belleville News-Democrat (Illinois) Belleville psychiatrist sentenced to more than two years for fraud By Beth Hundsdorfer April 3, 2008 A Belleville psychiatrist received a 30-month prison sentence today after he admitted to defrauding Medicare of $1.755 million. Ajit Trikha, 55, pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud in June by overbilling Medicare and Medicaid, billing for services that weren't performed and exceeding number of patients allowed in group therapy sessions. Trikha pleaded guilty in June. John Stobbs, Trikha's attorney, didn't return calls for comment. On Thursday, U.S. District Chief Judge David Herndon sentenced Trikha to 30 months in [...]
Arnold Hutschnecker, 89-YEAR-OLD Psychiatrist, sued for Sex with a patient – under the guise of psychiatric treatment
Newsday (New York) Therapist, 89, Accused of Seduction By Anthony M. DeStefano January 30, 1988 She was in her thirties. He was her octogenarian psychiatrist. Was what they had together love or was it therapy? That is the question to be answered in an unusual medical malpractice action now winding its way through State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Irene Miller, 37, of Manhattan, started the case last year when she sued her former psychiatrist, 89-year-old Dr. Arnold A. Hutschnecker. According to court documents, she charged that he exploited their patient-doctor relationship by inducing her to have sexual relations with him [...]
UK psychiatrist Brian Harris on trial – charges of indecent assault and rape against five men
BBC Dr Brian Harris, 77, worked for the NHS and in a private practice in Cardiff for 40 years. March 14, 2017 UK psychiatrist Brian Harris He denies all 13 charges of sexual assault, indecent assault and rape against five men. The allegations are said to have taken place between 1991 and 2011. The trial at Merthyr Crown Court is expected to last up to five weeks. The jury heard the first of the alleged assaults took place in 1991 on a man who was a patient at Sully Hospital and the Amy Evans clinic in Barry, Vale of [...]
Brian Harris, Cardiff psychiatrist, accused of indecent assault and rape against five patients at hospitals
Penarth Times Psychiatrist denies sex attacks at hospitals - including Sully By Anthony Lewis March 14, 2017 Psychiatrist Brian Harris A HOME Office psychiatrist accused of carrying out historic sex attacks on patients at hospitals across south Wales - including Sully - has appeared in court. Dr Brian Harris, 77, is accused of 13 charges of sexual assault, indecent assault and rape against five patients at hospitals - including the old Sully Hospital. Merthyr Crown Court heard today how the sex crimes were allegedly carried out at clinics and hospitals on "vulnerable" men over a 20-year period. Dr Harris [...]
Welsh psychiatrist Brian Harris’ license revoked – continued to “practice” while under investigation for sexual misconduct
BMJ Psychiatrist who saw patients after being told to stop practising is struck off By Clare Dyer December 15, 2017 Psychiatrist Brian Harris A former consultant psychiatrist who ignored an order from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service to stop practising while under investigation for misconduct has been struck off the UK medical register. Brian Harris, 77, of south Wales, came under investigation by the General Medical Council in October 2013 after being arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting male patients. In November 2013 an interim orders panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service imposed an 18 month suspension on [...]
Neil Schultz, New South Wales Psychiatrist – took ecstasy with and had sex with patient – license suspended – but only for 18 months
Sydney Morning Herald Psychiatrist struck off for sex and drugs with patient By Melissa Davey 7 May 2012 A NSW psychiatrist slept with a 25-year-old patient, wrote her scripts for powerful drugs without consultation, paid her $20,000, took ecstasy with her and did not end the relationship because he thought she would get "extremely angry," the state Medical Tribunal has heard. The tribunal ordered that Neil Schultz - who has been reprimanded for misconduct before - be deregistered for 18 months. It found him guilty of professional misconduct, failing to protect patient confidentiality, having an inappropriate personal relationship with a [...]
Virginia Psychiatrist Alberto Cervantes Sentenced to Prison – Insurance Fraud
WJHL Southwest Virginia psychiatrist sentenced to prison for healthcare, wire fraud By Olivia Carey January 9, 2019 Psychiatrist Alfredo Cervantes ABINGDON, VA (WJHL) - Psychiatrist Alberto Cervantes was sentenced to 7 months in prison on Wednesday. Cervantes pleaded guilty to defrauding Virginia Medicaid and United Healthcare by billing insurance programs while carrying out a sexual relationship with one of his patients. Cervantes was formerly employed by Mountain States Medical Group and Russell County Medical Center as a psychiatrist, where the sexual relationship started. According to a release, the relationship started in February of 2012 and continued until February of [...]
Belgium psychiatrist Lieve Thienpont – believed to be involved in one-third of the nation’s psychiatric-based euthanasia cases
Catholic News Agency Human rights court to hear case of Belgian euthanasia for depression January 9, 2019 Belgium Psychiatrist Lieve Thienpont Brussels, Belgium - The European Court of Human Rights has announced that it will take up a case considering whether Belgium wrongly allowed a woman to be euthanized on the grounds of “untreatable depression.” Tom Mortier says that his mother, Godelieva De Troyer, suffered from depression for a majority of her life. Her doctor of over 20 years had refused her request for end-of-life treatment in 2011. She then donated more than $2,800 to Life End Information Forum, [...]
Jane Gilbert, Ontario Psychiatrist, disciplinary committee orders revocation – sexual abuse of patient
The Canadian Press College deems Oakville psychiatrist’s affair with patient sexual abuse By Paola Loriggio January 10, 2019 Psychiatrist Jane Gilbert An Oakville, Ont., psychiatrist’s affair with a married patient who she introduced to her children amounts to sexual abuse, the province’s regulatory body for doctors has found. In a ruling released this week, the disciplinary committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario also said Dr. Jane Catherine Gilbert engaged in professional misconduct. An agreed statement of facts said Gilbert first started treating the patient, who was not named, in late 2009 after he sought out [...]
California Irresponsible in Paying Psychiatrists
Bloomberg California Psychiatrists Paid $400,000 Shows Bidding War By Freeman Klopott, Rodney Yap & Terrence Dopp Dec 12, 2012 Mohammad Safi, a graduate of a medical school in Afghanistan, began working as a psychiatrist at a California mental hospital in 2006, making $90,682 in his first six months. Last year, he took home $822,302, all of it paid by taxpayers. Safi benefited from what amounted to a bidding war after a federal court forced the state to improve inmate care. The prisons raised pay to lure psychiatrists, the mental health department followed suit to keep employees, and costs soared. Last [...]