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Mark Simko, Clearwater Morton Plant Psychiatrist, kicks patient out of office for breast feeding

ABC Action News St. Petersburg mother Nichole Moore says a doctor kicked her out of his office for nursing her baby By Jacqueline Ingles Jun 15, 2015 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A St. Petersburg mom says she was kicked out of a doctor’s office for nursing her 8-month-old baby during an appointment. "He said, 'I couldn't give him my full attention,'" recalled Nichole Moore. Moore told ABC Action News she waited two months to see Dr. Mark Simko, a psychiatrist, on June 11. Struggling with her infant, Moore wanted to see if she could be suffering from postpartum depression. According [...]

Koock E. Jung, NY psychiatrist, licensed for 50 years, suspended for “gross incompetence” and “moral unfitness”

Post Star Local psychiatrist's medical license suspended By Don Lehman June 23, 2015 Psychiatrist Koock E Jung Office, 597 Bay Rd, Queensbury, NY 12804 QUEENSBURY A Queensbury psychiatrist had his medical license suspended for 6 months last week after the state Department of Health brought a disciplinary case against him for allegations of “gross incompetence” and “moral unfitness.” Dr. Koock E. Jung, who operates Psychotherapy Center on Bay Road in Queensbury, will also spend 3 years on probation after the suspension is lifted, according to the Department of Health. The suspension takes effect June 29. The Department of Health [...]

Koock Jung, Psychiatrist – breaks down when confronted by reporter over harassment and abuse

News10.com Local psychiatrist accused of harassment, abuse By Lindsay Nielsen June 24, 2015 QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A North Country psychiatrist will have his license suspended for six months amid accusations of harassment, abuse and intimidation. A Queensbury psychiatrist has been accused of gross incompetence and moral unfitness. Dr. Koock Jung denies any wrongdoing but added that he can’t successfully defend himself from all the allegations. Some of his former patients claimed Dr. Jung asked them for hugs, told them they were beautiful, rubbed their legs, and touched them in a sexual nature. But Dr. Jung said it’s not true. [...]

Waldo Ellison, Virginia Beach Psychiatrist, settles $2 million lawsuit by parents of man who committed suicide after being prescribed escalating doses of Adderall. Ellison retired November 1, the day his license was suspended by the Virginia Board of Medicine

Virginian Pilot Lawsuit against former Va. Beach psychiatrist resolved out of court By Elizabeth Simpson The Virginian-Pilot July 6, 2015 Psychiatrist Waldo Ellison A lawsuit against a former Virginia Beach psychiatrist that was set to begin next week has been resolved out of court, according to a lawyer who represents the parents of Richard Fee, a Virginia Beach man who committed suicide in November 2011 after being prescribed escalating doses of Adderall. Robert Moreland, who represents Kathy and Rick Fee of Virginia Beach, said the resolution with former psychiatrist Waldo Ellison contains a clause to not reveal the terms [...]

Dancing “better than a psychiatrist”

Leader Dancing 'better than a psychiatrist' says shire folk group By Jim Gainsford July 5, 2015 Good for the spirits — and body: Sutherland Shire Folk Dance Group members Kaye Laurendet and Lorraine Crane (centre, foreground) with (from left) Fiona Clark, Bert Laurendet, Paul Clark, Judith Connolly and Joan Gillies (right). Picture: Chris Lane SUTHERLAND Shire Folk Dance Group members believe they are proof dancing is good for you — mentally and physically. The folk dancers, who celebrated the 40th anniversary of their group on June 13, have been the subject of a university study and two ABC [...]

Michael Kessler, Penn. psychiatrist, hauled off to prison for child sex crimes

Pocono Record UNLAWFUL CONTACT WITH MINOR Cresco ex-psychiatrist caught 'grooming' boy on Facebook sentenced By Andrew Scott July 11, 2015 Psychiatrist Michael Kessler was sentenced to state prison for trying to lure a 13-year-old boy to meet him for sex A Monroe County mother's protective vigilance in monitoring her son's Facebook account is what likely spared him from being victimized by someone she and her family had known and trusted. "You messed with the wrong mother's child," she told former psychiatrist Michael Kessler, 45, of Cresco, in court Friday, shortly before Kessler was sentenced to 1½ to five [...]

Ong Ming Tan, Aussie psychiatrist, “highly devious”, jailed for inappropriately touching a group of young patients suffering from serious mental illnesses

Sydney Morning Herald Former patient of psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan tells of 'betrayal' By Paul Bibby July 12, 2015 Psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan One of seven women suing a North Shore medical clinic after they were indecently assaulted by its psychiatrist has described as "cruel" and "devastating" the facility's refusal to accept liability for what happened within its walls. Sixteen months after Ong Ming Tan was jailed for inappropriately touching a group of young patients suffering from serious mental illnesses, one victim has told Fairfax Media that the Greenwich based Northside clinic knew what was happening but failed to [...]

Gregg Hunter, Louisiana psychiatrist, wants license back after being suspended for rudeness, sexual misconduct and poor bedside manner

Louisiana Record Psychiatrist seeks reinstatement of license in suit against medical board June 8, 2015 By Local Labs News Service Practice address for Gregg Spaulding Hunter A doctor is suing a state medical board regarding a 2014 matter. Gregg Spaulding Hunter, a psychiatrist licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana, filed a lawsuit against The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana on May 29, citing civil rights violation. The suit states that the defendant issued a suspension of the plaintiff’s license on May 30, 2014, based on an alleged [...]

Avijit Mitra, psychiatrist at Connecticut Valley Psych Hospital, improperly prescribed drugs to himself, his wife and others

New Haven Register Hamden psychiatrist must hire monitor; Stamford psychiatrist fined By Kate Farrish May 19, 2015 Avijit Mitra "practices" at Connecticut Valley Psych Hospital The state Medical Examining Board placed the medical license of a Hamden psychiatrist on probation for a year Tuesday and ordered him to hire a psychiatrist to supervise his practice. The psychiatrist, Dr. Avijit Mitra, who has an office in Woodbridge, has already paid $55,000 in state and federal fines for improperly prescribing controlled substances to himself, his wife and others, state records show. At its meeting in Hartford Tuesday, the board also fined [...]

Lisa Perdue, Texas psychiatrist resigns from Terrell State Psych Hospital, after confronted with disciplinary action for taking $615,525 from drug company – Forbidden by state health code

Texas Tribune Terrell State Psychiatrists Resign After Accusations by Ryan McCrimmon April 17, 2015 Psychiatrist Lisa Perdue Terrell State Psych Hospital Two psychiatrists at Terrell State Hospital resigned this week after being told they would face disciplinary action for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from a pharmaceutical company to promote the drug Seroquel, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. According to agency documents, Dr. Anthony Claxton, the hospital's clinical director, and Dr. Lisa Perdue, a psychiatrist, received large amounts of money from pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to promote the company’s drugs to other doctors [...]

Gerardo Navarro Rodriguez, Puerto Rican Child Psychiatrist, Gets 15 years in Prison – transporting a minor for prostitution

Google translation: PrimeraHora.com Psychiatrist sentenced for abusing a minor Por Francisco Rodríguez-Burns May 7, 2015 Psychiatrist Gerardo Navarro Rodriguez Psychiatrist Gerardo Navarro Rodriguez was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison on the charge of transporting a minor for prostitution and criminal sexual conduct. Federal Judge Jay García Gregory issued the sentence, as suggested by a plea agreement for the accused, whose practice is focused on care for children and adolescents. "It's very difficult to stand here and look at the person who hurt me so deeply. Really do not know how there are people who abuse [...]

British psychiatrist Colin Brewer (revoked license) hired to sign off on suicides at Switzerland “suicide clinic”, which is facing a major criminal probe

Daily Mail Banned British doctor who approves Dignitas suicides secretly recorded advising how patients can 'pop their clogs' even when they are not terminally ill By Lucy Osborne and Katherine Faulkner and Paul Bentley May 29 2015 British psychiatrist Colin Brewer Dignitas is sending people who want to die to a banned British doctor for approval they need for an assisted suicide, the Mail can reveal. The clinic is telling patients to get a report from a controversial psychiatrist struck off nine years ago for serious misconduct. They say that Colin Brewer – who has helped at least 12 [...]

Muhammad Choudhry, psychiatrist, routinely billed for 20 hours per day, Ohio permanently revoked his license. Now Illinois is investigating him for providing group therapy sessions to more than 100 Medicaid patients every other day in 2010 and 2011

Reuters Banned from Medicare, still billing Medicaid By M.B. Pell and Kristina Cooke April 29, 2015 Psychiatrist Muhammad Choudhry NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO – A doctor who took kickbacks from a Pennsylvania hospice involved in a multimillion-dollar fraud. An Ohio psychiatrist who billed for treating no-show patients. A Georgia optometrist who claimed he conducted 177 eye exams in one day. Their transgressions vary. What these doctors have in common is that each was paid by a state Medicaid health insurance program after being kicked out of another state’s Medicaid system or the federal Medicare program. That’s not supposed to happen. [...]

Stephen Olson, Minnesota psychiatrist, Violated Patient Safety Procedures during drug trials

Minnesota Public Radio News Review finds U of M psychiatry researcher violated patient safety procedures By Alex Friedrich May 15, 2015 Psychiatrist Stephen Olson An outside review commissioned by the University of Minnesota has found a university psychiatry researcher made three safety procedure violations during a 2007 study — two of them serious. The report by FTI Consulting, released Friday, says Dr. Stephen Olson failed to give a research subject important information about a drug he was taking. Olson and his team also inappropriately prepped the patient for the study before he agreed to participate. But the FTI Consulting [...]

Andrew Leggett, Psychiatrist Down Under, “Patient Pressured Him Into Sex”; Medical Board wanted him suspended but Judge worried about maintaining public confidence in psychiatrists

The Courier-Mail Psychiatrist claims patient pressured him into having sex By Vanda Carson May 19, 2015 Psychiatrist Andrew Leggett A VETERAN psychiatrist given a slap on the wrist for having sex with a depressed former patient says she propositioned him for sex during therapy. Andrew Alfred George Leggett, who currently works in a private practice in South Brisbane, said his patient transferred her “erotic feelings” to him. Dr Leggett today appeared before the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal where he admitted he was wrong to have sex with the woman who was suffering from chronic depression. Dr Leggett has [...]

William Rader, Malibu psychiatrist, license revoked 20 years ago. Now, Rader continues to sell unproven stem cell treatments “His dishonesty permeates every aspect of his business and practices”

LA Times Doctor with revoked license continues to sell unproven stem cell treatments By Alan Zarembo May 16, 2015 Courtesy of KABC, Los Angeles (July 30, 2010) Last fall, two decades after Malibu psychiatrist William Rader began selling unproven stem cell treatments to desperate patients with incurable conditions, California authorities permanently revoked his medical license for negligence, false or misleading advertising and professional misconduct. "His dishonesty permeates every aspect of his business and practices," the medical board wrote in a scathing 39-page decision. Today, Rader has a new title: "chief scientist" rather than "chief medical officer." But his California company [...]

Anna Binder, Conn. Psychiatrist, disciplined for using hospital letterhead to create fake medical reports

Binder is also licensed in the State of Florida. These two addresses are listed for her: KROME DETENTION CENTER CLINIC OF INNOVATIVE MINDS, P.A., 2627 NE 203RD STREET, SUITE 214, AVENTURA, FL Psychiatrist Anna Binder, Connecticut Discipline Records Hartford Courant Two Psychiatrists Disciplined By Medical Examining Board By Kate Farrish HARTFORD — ---BEGIN EXCERPT In the first case, Dr. Anna Binder must also complete course work in professional ethics and patients' rights under a consent order that she signed on March 31. The Department of Public Health began an investigation of Binder in October 2014 when Stamford [...]

Curtis Steele, Canadian Psychiatrist, 82, Charged with Child Porn, Took Photos of Young Girls

CBC News Former Halifax psychiatrist Curtis Steele facing child porn charges Steele had licence revoked after he was accused of exploiting 14-year-old girl under his care May 8, 2015 Psychiatrist Curtis Steele A former psychiatrist who practised in Halifax and taught at Dalhousie University has been charged with a child pornography offence. Dr. Curtis Steele, 82, is charged with printing and publishing child pornography. The alleged offence took place 11 years ago, between January and December 2004. He is expected to answer to the charges on June 16. In the meantime, Steele has been ordered to stay away from [...]

Maykel Luna, Psychiatrist – Performs Shock Treatment at Morton Plant Hospital

PsychSearch.net Yeah, They Still Do Shock Treatment By Ken Kramer May 12, 2015 Note: Saturday, May 16, 2015, is the international day of protest against shock treatment. There will be demonstrations protesting shock treatment in many cities around the world. Morton Plant Shock Treatment Psychiatrist Maykel Luna-Concepcion A couple of years ago PsychSearch received an encouraging tip that shock treatment was no longer used at Morton Plant hospital in Clearwater, Florida, where we are located. But we were dispirited when we heard from Elizabeth Hardy, Morton Plant's spokesperson. Her e-mail was short: "Electroconvulsive Therapy is offered at Morton [...]

Joseph Bray, psychiatrist, tells patient distressed over unfaithful husband: “men are not biologically programmed for monogamy”; tells patient: “When my wife dies I will shag as many women as I can”

Daily Herald When my wife dies, I'll sleep with as many women as possible: What psychiatrist told patient betrayed by husband By Jaya Narain May 13, 2015 Psychiatrist Joseph Bray A psychiatrist stunned a depressed patient by telling her: ‘When my wife dies, I will s**g as many women as I can’, a tribunal heard yesterday. The woman had gone to Dr Joseph Bray, 57, in ‘emotional distress’ after learning that her husband had been unfaithful. But Bray, a married father of two, told her that men are not biologically programmed for monogamy and said it was ‘unreasonable’ for [...]

Fred Risser, Maine Psychiatrist, Butt Slapper, Ordered to Stop Treating Women

Bangor Daily News Bangor psychiatrist ordered to stop treating women By Jackie Farwell May 15, 2015 415 Water St, Ellsworth, Maine BANGOR, Maine — A Bangor psychiatrist must stop treating women after allegedly developing an unprofessional relationship with a female patient, according to a state medical licensing board. Dr. Fred Risser may treat only men and must submit to independent monitoring of his practice to ensure he meets prescribing and recordkeeping standards, his May 12 consent agreement with the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine states. While a 30-year-old female was his patient in 2009 and 2010, Risser drove [...]

Daniel Rousch, Texas Psychiatrist

Rousch, Daniel Eric, D.O., Lic. No. J4488, Bedford On April 10, 2015, the Board and Daniel Eric Rousch, D.O., entered into an Agreed Order Modifying Prior Order, modifying his February 2013 Order to require Dr. Rousch to make current all chart monitor payments and present proof within 60 days; require Dr. Rousch to complete an additional six cycles of chart monitoring; and within one year complete at least 40 hours in CME, divided as follows: 20 hours in evaluation and treatment of bipolar disorder in adults and children, 10 hours in evaluation and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and [...]

Florida Psychiatrist Barry Kaplowitz Gets the slammer – Claimed he “treated” 400 patients – Not

Miami Herald Hollywood Pavilion psychiatrist sentenced to five years in Medicare scam By Jay Weaver April 30, 2015 Psychiatrist Barry Kaplowitz A onetime medical director of a Hollywood psychiatric facility was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for lying about treating hundreds of patients in a scheme that cost the taxpayer-funded Medicare program $2.9 million. U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga also ordered Barry Kaplowitz, a 54-year-old Aventura psychiatrist, to repay Medicare for its loss. In February, a Miami federal jury convicted Kaplowitz of making false statements related to Medicare billing at Hollywood Pavilion, though the panel acquitted him [...]

Enyinnaya Ezema, Canadian (formerly UK) Psychiatrist, charged with assault, loses license

CBC News Pictou County psychiatrist charged with assault; no longer licensed Dr. Enyinnaya Ezema charged after alleged incident at New Glasgow outpatient facility By Melissa Mancini April 24, 2015 A psychiatrist in Pictou County, who has been charged with assault, is no longer licensed to practise medicine in Nova Scotia. Dr. Enyinnaya Ezema has been charged with assault stemming from an incident on Dec. 16, said Const. Ken MacDonald of the New Glasgow Regional Police. The police responded to a call at an outpatient facility on East River Road in New Glasgow. The incident did not take place at the [...]