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Sue Sisley – Psychiatrist Canned by University of Arizona
Medscape Psychiatrist Fired as 'Payback' for Marijuana Research? Deborah Brauser July 21, 2014 Psychiatrist Sue Sisley A psychiatrist and researcher from the University of Arizona claims the school fired her because of her advocacy on behalf of a controversial, federally approved study investigating marijuana as a potential treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veterans. News of the dismissal of Sue Sisley, MD, from her various positions at the university has garnered widespread media attention, including a televised interview with CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. In addition, a petition launched last week calling for her reinstatement has already [...]
Cold War Russian Psychiatrist Yan Goland Uses Hypnosis to “Cure” Gays
BuzzFeed This Russian Psychiatrist Will Cure Your Gayness Through Hypnosis “Distinguished Doctor of the Russian Federation” Yan Goland started “curing” gays, lesbians, and transsexuals when gay sex was outlawed in the Soviet Union, and is still at it today. By Max Seddon August 13, 2013 Meet Dr. Yan Goland, a psychiatrist in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Psychiatrist Yan Goland According to the Russian Society of Psychiatrists, Dr. Goland is the only doctor in the country who cures patients of their homosexual desires - none of his Soviet-era colleagues are left. “They tried to cure them through castration, hormone therapy, [...]
A Pitchfork to the Temple
Dec 2018 A Pitchfork to the Temple The last memories pigs have before they are slaughtered are electrodes being attached to their heads. A moment later they are stunned with a jolt of electricity that blasts its way through their brains. This induces an epileptic seizure which renders the hog insensate, not responsive to any stimuli, and floppy. They are now ready to be butchered. This very scene of pigs being shocked into unconscious numbness on their way to the slaughterhouse was the the twisted revelation that inspired the invention of psychiatry’s most deadly legacy: shock therapy. It’s hard to [...]
Brent Cox, Mill Valley Psychiatrist, Suspended for Missing his Own Mental Exam
The Marin Independent Journal Marin psychiatrist has license suspended for missing his own mental exam By Gary Klien, February 1, 2013 The state medical board suspended the license of a Mill Valley psychiatrist Thursday for failing to show up for a mandatory psychiatric examination. The board ordered Dr. Brent Taylor Cox to get the test last year after a complaint that he "may be suffering from a substance addiction disorder and/or other mental impairment that may affect his ability to practice medicine safely," according to board documents. The board said Cox did not arrive for his scheduled exam, even though [...]
Psychiatrist Jerome Feldman, Daytona Beach, Sold Non-Existent Body Parts
News-Journal (Daytona Beach, Florida) Failed transplant leads officials to Ormond fugitive June 08, 2009 By Julie Murphy Erwin Langier was promised a lifesaving liver transplant when he traveled to the Philippines last year, but federal officials say instead the Canadian lived out his last days in a foreign hospital, away from his wife. She stayed behind to handle the financial arrangements for her dying husband. And, nearly $100,000 later, what she is left with are memories tainted by the knowledge she was duped by a former Ormond Beach psychiatrist who investigators say started scamming people internationally more than 40 years [...]
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 — [...]