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Mexico Psychiatrist, Pablo Santos García Gutiérrez, Suspected Murderer of Another Psychiatrist According to Police
Psychiatrist Pablo Santos García Gutiérrez The Yucantan Times Murder of a Psychiatrist, the case that has shocked Mérida August 29th, 2014 The trial that will determine the guilt or innocence of psychiatrists Enrique Lara Gonzalez and Pablo Santos García Gutiérrez for the murder of their colleague Felipe de Jesus Triay Peniche will take place in February 2015. After Judge Luis Mugarte Guerrero determined that there are grounds for believing that the suspects are guilty, psychiatrists Pablo Santos García Gutiérrez, alleged perpetrator of the murder, and Enrique Lara Gonzalez, the alleged mastermind, will remain incarcerated for six months in [...]
Louis Tsavaris – Psychiatrist Who Strangled Patient
The Associated Press Psychiatrist Gets 15 Years For Manslaughter Conviction June 11, 1981 Psychiatrist Louis Tsavaris Dr. Louis Tsavaris has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the strangling of a former patient-lover, but at least one juror believes the psychiatrist "got away with murder." Hillsborough Circuit Judge Harry Lee Coe handed down the maximum penalty Wednesday. Tsavaris originally was accused of first-degree murder, but jurors found him guilty of manslaughter Tuesday. Despite objections from prosecutors who wanted the doctor in custody, Coe said the 51-year-old psychiatrist could remain free on bond pending appeal -- a process attorneys [...]
Psychiatrists at Texas State Hospitals Sexually Abuse Children
Austin Statesman Report: State agencies fail to protect psychiatric hospital patients Charles Henry Fischer, 60, was not adequately supervised for two decades, according to report by Disability Rights Texas. By Andrea Ball and Eric Dexheimer Feb. 19, 2013 Charles Henry Fischer, 60, was not adequately supervised for two decades, according to report by Disability Rights Texas. Lax oversight and biased investigations by Texas state officials have placed vulnerable psychiatric patients at risk for abuse and neglect for two decades, according to a sharply critical investigative report released Monday. The report, prepared by Disability Rights Texas, recommends reforms to the [...]
Enrique Lara Gonzalez, Mexico Chief Psychiatrist, Masterminded Murder of Another Psychiatrist According to Police
The Yucantan Times Murder of a Psychiatrist, the case that has shocked Mérida August 29th, 2014 Chief Psychiatrist Enrique Lara Gonzalez The trial that will determine the guilt or innocence of psychiatrists Enrique Lara Gonzalez and Pablo Santos García Gutiérrez for the murder of their colleague Felipe de Jesus Triay Peniche will take place in February 2015. After Judge Luis Mugarte Guerrero determined that there are grounds for believing that the suspects are guilty, psychiatrists Pablo Santos García Gutiérrez, alleged perpetrator of the murder, and Enrique Lara Gonzalez, the alleged mastermind, will remain incarcerated for six months in [...]
Psychiatrist Morris Fraser on list of Britain’s most depraved men
The People March 2, 2014 Northern Ireland Britain's most depraved men GEOFFREY PRIME THE PIE [Paedophile Information Exchange] member and Russian-speaking traitor worked for the RAF and Britain's spy nerve centre, GCHQ. He was exposed when police investigating a sex assault found his spy gear and PIE magazines. He scoured local newspapers in Hereford for pictures of girls in school or Brownie uniform, using his spy skills to find them. He hooded one of his victims, who was only 11. Jailed for 38 years in 1982 for espionage and sex assaults on three girls. Now 76, he was released early [...]
Alan John Stubley – guilty of raping and sexually abusing two female patients
The West Australian Doctor, 80, faces jail for sex abuse An 80-year-old former psychiatrist spent last night in prison after a jury found him guilty of raping and sexually abusing two female patients more than 30 years ago. After seven hours of deliberation, the Supreme Court jury convicted Alan John Stubley of 10 of the 14 alleged offences against two women during psychotherapy sessions from 1975 to 1978. He was found guilty of six counts of rape, three of indecent assault and one of attempted rape. Last night, the partner of one of the victims said that the two former [...]
Babak Mirin – Psychiatrist – “credible allegation of fraud”
Albuquerque Journal Ruling: HSD must give hearing; Psychiatrist denied Medicaid payments By Deborah Baker September 5, 2013 Psychiatrist Babak Mirin SANTA FE - A state district judge ruled Wednesday that a behavioral health provider whose Medicaid payments were suspended by the Human Services Department in early 2012 is entitled to hear the fraud allegations against him and rebut them. District Judge Raymond Ortiz ruled after a brief hearing that due process requires that Dr. Babak Mirin, a psychiatrist, be granted a hearing by HSD, especially because his payments have been suspended for a year and a half. Ortiz said [...]
Silly Arizona Psychiatrist Michael Yasinski says “Affluenza” Exists
But the folks who popularized the term says it is social criticism, not psychiatry and are appalled by the Court Decision See here Psychiatrist Michael Yasinski KPHO Valley psychiatrist says 'affluenza' a real condition Dec 13, 2013 By Greg Argos PHOENIX (CBS5) - A judge in Texas sentenced a 16-year-old to 10 years probation instead of jail time after his defense said he suffered from "affluenza." An expert defense witness used the condition in the trial of the 16-year-old teenage driver, Ethan Couch, who after confessing to intoxication manslaughter in the fatal accident avoided what could have been [...]
Psychiatrist Thomas Sachy Jailed – charged with contempt
Jones County News Psychiatrist jailed for contempt of court by Debbie Lurie-Smith February 7, 2010 Psychiatrist Thomas Sachy A local psychiatrist who alleged corruption of the Jones County’s Sheriff’s Department and Superior Court system now resides at the Jones County Law Enforcement Center as a result of a contempt charge. Dr. Thomas H. Sachy was ordered incarcerated by Chief Superior Court Judge William Prior following a Jan. 28 contempt hearing. The psychiatrist is charged with contempt because of his failure to pay a $930,000 judgment to his former wife, Dr. Melissa Sims. The payment was ordered by Judge Hulane [...]
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 — [...]
Lieve Thienpont, Belgium Psychiatrist – to stand trial on suspicion of poisoning in euthanasia case
Christian Today Belgium launches criminal investigation into doctors who euthanised 38-year-old woman with autism By Staff writer November 30, 2018 Psychiatrist Lieve Thienpont Authorities in Belgium have launched a criminal investigation into a group of doctors who euthanised a 38-year-old woman with autism. Tine Nys was euthanised in 2010 two months after she was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome but her family question the speed with which the diagnosis was made and allege numerous irregularities in her death. According to the Brussels Times, the family's formal complaint also claimed that the life-ending drugs had been administered in an 'amateurish' way. [...]
Psychiatrist Vincent Berg, Australia, sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in prison for repeated fraud and forgery
Union of Orthodox Journalists Founder of Ukrainian schism accused of fraud and forgery Editorial board November 27 2018 Psychiatrist Vincent Berg aka Vikentiy Chekalin Vikentiy Chekalin, who “ordained” “bishops” of the UAOC, being deprived of his rank by the ROC for immoral acts, was sentenced to 4 years in prison in Australia. In Australia, Southport County Court in Queensland sentenced 67-year-old Vincent Berg to 4 years and 3 months in prison for the repeated fraud and forgery. It is reported by the Greek agency Romfea. Vincent Berg (pseudo. Vikentiy Chekalin, - Ed. note), who migrated from Russia in the [...]
Dishonest, Foul-mouthed psychiatrist Marinus Klijnsma who abused staff and said a patient could go ‘kill herself’ faces revocation of license
Daily Mail By Daily Mail Reporter December 9, 2013 Psychiatrist Marinus Klijnsma committed the charges while working at the Gables (pictured) A foul-mouthed psychiatrist who swore at staff and said a patient ‘can just go and kill herself’ faces being struck off after being found guilty of misconduct. Dr Marinus Klijnsma told a tribunal that his use of inappropriate and offensive language was a ‘dysfunctional habit’ that got worse over the years. Some of his secretaries received angry voicemail messages in which he asked: ‘Where the f**k are you?’ In another voicemail he said: ‘Whenever I f**king ring you, [...]
Aubrey Levin, Psychiatrist; His wife in Hot Water for Attempting to Bribe Juror in his Criminal Case
Calgary Herald Jury selected for wife of disgraced doctor in bribery case By Daryl Slade September 24, 2014 A nine-woman, three-man jury has been selected to decide the fate of Erica Levin, wife of disgraced forensic psychiatrist Aubrey Levin, for allegedly attempting to bribe a juror at her husband’s sexual assault trial early last year. The jury selection was a rarely-used ‘challenge for cause’ format in which Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Patrick Sullivan asked the potential jurors up to three questions related to their knowledge of pre-trial publicity in order to test whether they could be impartial in their [...]
Texas Psychiatrist James Grigson, “Dr. Death” – expelled from the American Psychiatric Association and the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians
Texas Tribune Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rules against death row inmate Jeff Wood The court denied relief on Wednesday to Wood, who never killed anyone, granting the state the opportunity to set another execution date for the 1996 murder of a store clerk in Kerrville. By Hannah Wiley November 21, 2018 Texas Psychiatrist James Grigson The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected a bid by death row inmate Jeff Wood to reconsider his death sentence, granting the state the opportunity to set another execution date for Wood, whose case gained national attention because of his role as [...]