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Tennessee Psychiatrist Abul Kasem Fakhruddin Surrenders License after Overbilling $325,758
The Tennessean State medical board takes action against pain doctor, psychiatrist Improper narcotics prescriptions, billing bring action February 22, 2014 By Tom Wilemon 803 Meadowlark Ln, Goodlettsville, TN - former "practice address" of psychiatrist Abul Kasem Fakhruddin A Nashville psychiatrist accused of overbilling Tennessee’s Medicaid program has surrendered his license, while a Lebanon pain doctor has had his suspended for improperly prescribing narcotics. The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners took actions against Dr. A K Fakhruddin, the psychiatrist, and Dr. Nii S. Quao, the pain doctor, at its January meeting, according to a disciplinary report released last week. The [...]
Sydney psychiatrist to be Sentenced in Assaults Against Patients
9News National February 27, 2014 Psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan Assaulted Patients at Sydney's Northside Clinic, a teaching hospital for the University of Sydney Former psychiatrist Ong Ming Tan had three rules he drummed home to his patients: honesty, confidentiality and speaking up when one is pissed off. The disgraced Sydney practitioner manipulated these principles and left four women deeply affected, a court has heard. Tan has pleaded guilty to four charges of aggravated indecent assault against patients. In a sentence hearing on Thursday, Tan's victims emotionally recounted the effect his behaviour had had on their lives. The women had [...]
California Prison Psychiatrist Pedro Eva Convicted of Grand Theft
The Californian Feb. 27, 2014 Salinas Valley State Prison Dr. Pedro Eva, 49, of Soledad, has been convicted of grand theft and submitting false claims to the state of California while working at Salinas Valley State Prison, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. The charges stem from an investigation conducted by the Office of the Inspector General from March 1 to June 30, 2007, which was initiated after authorities received an anonymous letter alleging that Dr. Eva and four other doctors were overbilling the state for their services, prosecutors said. The investigation revealed that all these doctors [...]
Psychiatrist Andrew McBride Used Patient for Sex – Struck off
Oxford Mail Psychiatrist struck off for ‘using woman for sex’ February 4, 2014 The General Medical Council (pictured) has struck off McBride, saying that he 'abused his position of trust' A PSYCHIATRIST who confessed to a seven-year affair with a vulnerable patient after she was found dead has been struck off. Dr Andrew McBride started a sexual relationship with the woman while treating her for drug and alcohol abuse at the Rectory Centre in Oxford in 2003. In a string of diary entries read out at a disciplinary tribunal, the woman described how she felt McBride was “using her [...]
Video – Crackhead Psychiatrist (also a University of Florida Professor) increased dangerous amounts of drugs leading to one patient’s death
Psychiatrist Harold E. Smith GTN NEWS The Florida Board of Medicine lays down the law for one UF psychiatric professor. Dr. Harold Smith has a history of drug abuse--and is also accused of prescribing lethal amounts of oxycontin to a patient. In our big story this half- hour-- GTN'S Briana Harper joins us live in the newsroom with more on what could happen next. This is Smith's third disciplinary hearing with the board since receiving his Florida medical license in 1999. The state medical board made a unanimous decision to discipline the professor - but the question now is [...]
Orange County Psychiatrist Surrenders License – incompetent, unprofessional and grossly negligent in treatment of psychiatric patient left with a broken neck for five hours
Los Angeles Times O.C. doctor accused by medical board to give up license By Lee Romney February 5, 2014 Metropolitan State Hospital, Norwalk, CA SAN FRANCISCO — More than four years after a 52-year-old psychiatric patient was left with a broken neck for five hours on the floor of her room at Metropolitan State Hospital, the physician responsible for her care has agreed to give up his license, according to the state medical board. Dr. Ngoc Le Tuyen, of Fountain Valley, who goes by Tuyen Le, agreed to surrender his license rather than fight an accusation filed last summer [...]
“Expert” in forensic psychiatry Charges with Sexual Assault
CBC News March 24, 2010 Aubrey Levin – Courtroom psychiatrist charged in sex assault Psychiatrist Aubrey Levin Calgary psychiatrist Dr. Aubrey Levin is charged with sexually assaulting a patient. (CBC) Dr. Aubrey Levin, a Calgary psychiatrist who has worked extensively with justice officials on criminal cases, has been charged with sexual assault. Police say a 36-year-old man, one of Levin’s long-term patients, alleges he was sexually assaulted repeatedly by Levin over a period of time. Levin, 71, has regularly testified in court cases as an expert in forensic psychiatry, a factor that could widen the investigation, police said. “He [...]
Video – Goofy Fox News Psychiatrist Keith Ablow Invents Even Another Disorder – “Data Rage”
The Raw Story Fox psychiatrist invents ‘data rage’ after theater shooting to blame phones instead of guns By David Edwards January 14, 2014 Psychiatrist Keith Ablow Fox News “Medical A-Team” member Keith Ablow thinks smartphones may be even more dangerous to have in theaters than handguns. Ablow on Tuesday said a smartphone caused a retired police officer to experience “data rage” toward a man who was texting in a Florida theater and fatally shoot him. After Curtis Reeves was ordered held without bond on Tuesday, Fox News hosts Bill Hemmer and Alisyn Camerota asked the television psychiatrist what might [...]
PsychSearch.net Celebrating Ten Years
PsychSearch.net was created in 2004. It has been refined a bit. Originally, we compiled public records on psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage counselors and clinical social workers in Florida. Now, we focus strictly upon psychiatrists and have expanded outside Florida to cover the nation. We'd like to warmly and sincerely thank those of you who helped in the last decade. We've gotten to know many of you only through e-mail and online postings. Maybe we can thank you in person sometime. As is our custom, we would like to ask you once again for your opinion on how to [...]
Psychiatrist Threatens Patient: “You should be afraid of me. I am the one who is going to shock your brain with electricity”
Star Tribune State psychiatrist scolded on shock threat at Minnesota Security Hospital By PAUL MCENROE January 21, 2014 Property owned by psychiatrist James Anders Christensen, Rochester, MN (from Google Earth) Ruling of maltreatment by Security Hospital psychiatrist is about-face. A state psychiatrist committed emotional maltreatment when he threatened a mentally ill patient at the Minnesota Security Hospital with electroshock therapy, a top state official has determined. The decision by Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson overrules the department’s inspector general, who decided last month that the psychiatrist’s threats didn’t merit a finding of maltreatment. “The reasonable person on the street [...]
Dominique Bourget
The Gazette (Montreal) January 25, 2014 Saturday Doctor downplays addictiveness of nicotine; Testimony in hearing leads to complaint filed by anti-smoking organization By MICHELLE LALONDE The Non-Smokers' Rights Association has filed a complaint with the Collège des médecins du Québec against a psychiatrist who testified this week at the ongoing hearings of two class action suits brought by Quebec smokers against three tobacco companies. The complaint accuses Dominique Bourget, a forensic psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, of breaching the College's ethics code by "minimizing the gravity of, if not denying the existence of, tobacco dependence" in her [...]
Psychiatrist Andrew McBride in Hot Water over Drugging and Sex with Patient
Oxford Mail January 25, 2014 Psychiatrist had affair with vulnerable patient A PSYCHIATRIST denied an affair with a vulnerable patient only to admit to it after her death, a tribunal has heard. Dr Andrew McBride was twice investigated over the "intimate and sexual" 2003 to 2010 affair, it heard. But the addiction specialist later admitted the affair through solicitors, Hugh Davies for the General Medical Council (GMC) told the tribunal. He said Dr McBride - later sacked over the affair - met the un-named "vulnerable" woman in 2003 when she was 48, at Oxford's Rectory Centre. She had a history [...]
Psychiatrist Paul Strickland Attacks Wife, Bites Her Face
Manchester Evening News Psychiatrist bit wife's face in row over another lover By Tom Brooks-Pollock January 30, 2014 Psychiatrist Paul Strickland A top doctor bit his wife’s face before breaking her glasses and hitting her around the head with a cardboard box, a court heard. Paul Strickland, 51, launched the violent attack after finding out that his wife was seeing someone new following the breakdown of their 20-year marriage. The consultant psychiatrist, who works for the NHS in Salford , Trafford and Bolton , left Judith Richardson seven voicemail messages and banged on the door of their former shared [...]
Wife Shoots “Near” her Pennsylvania Psychiatrist Husband John Mitchell (yes, of course, he had prescribed drugs to her)
Morning Call Woman admits firing gun near psychiatrist husband By Kevin Amerman January 2, 2014 Psychiatrist - John Mitchelll Often looking confused and needing much coaching from her attorney, a former Lower Milford woman cautiously admitted Thursday to recklessly endangering her husband, an Emmaus psychiatrist, by firing a gun in his vicinity while he slept. Patricia Lee Mitchell, 56, denied shooting the gun directly at her husband as alleged by authorities, but admitted she fired it in her living room as he slept on the floor around 3:45 a.m. on June 22 at the couple's home on Vera Cruz [...]
Earl Hardin, Vancouver, BC Psychiatrist, Reprimanded for hand-holding, hugging and kissing patient
College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia 300–669 Howe Street Telephone: 604-733-7758 Vancouver BC V6C 0B4 Toll Free: 1-800-461-3008 (in BC) www.cpsbc.ca Fax: 604-733-3503 Serving the public through excellence and professionalism in medical practice MEDIA RELEASE – January 7, 2014 Dr. HARDIN, Earl David Vancouver, BC When reporting this release, please provide the name and location of the physician in full in order to avoid confusion with any other physician who may have a similar name or initials. VANCOUVER, BC: Dr. Earl David Hardin, a psychiatrist, has admitted to engaging in unprofessional conduct by using touch (such as hand-holding, [...]
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Psychiatrist Kripakaran Puvalai – Long History of Sexually Inappropriate Conduct
The State Journal Register SIU med school didn’t report resident’s conduct to state By Dean Olsen Staff Writer Jan. 5, 2014 Office of Psychiatrist Kripakaran Puvalai A local psychiatrist disciplined by the state for inappropriately touching six female patients as recently as 2013 was punished in the early 2000s, during his residency training in Springfield, for a lack of professional conduct and failure to maintain appropriate boundaries with patients. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, which operated the psychiatric residency program in which Dr. Kripakaran Puvalai was enrolled, never informed the state about Puvalai’s problems because officials at the [...]
Video – News Crew Ambushes Psychiatrist – His Psych Drugged Out Patient Killed 2 Beautiful Young Girls in Car Accident
Sunshine Coast Daily (Queensland) Tribunal to decide on doc's future January 7, 2014 Psychiatrist Philip Bird A public tribunal will be held to determine whether a Sunshine Coast doctor should continue to be a licensed medical practitioner. The Medical Board of Australia has moved against Maroochydore psychiatrist Dr Philip Bird because it said it "reasonably believes that the practitioner has behaved in a way that constitutes professional misconduct". The decision comes 12 years after complaints first were raised about the behaviour of Dr Bird and another psychiatrist, Dr Zoran Radovic, who both attended patients in the Ward 3c mental [...]
Oregon Cattle Killer Psychiatrist Joel Rice Buys Off Criminal Charges – Now Faces Animal Cruelty Charges
The Observer Cattle killer to face charges Criminal mischief charges dropped, animal abuse charges to move forward By Kelly Ducote January 10, 2014 Cattle Killer Psychiatrist Joel Rice Visiting Judge Lung S. Hung approved dismissing first-degree criminal mischief charges against Dr. Joel Rice pursuant to a civil compromise Thursday afternoon. After hearing about five hours of testimony and arguments, Hung, a circuit court judge out of Malheur County, found that animal abuse charges are not subject to a civil compromise, but agreed to sign an order dismissing the criminal mischief charges. Rice, a La Grande psychiatrist, was charged with [...]
Top Prescribing Texas Psychiatrist G.K. Ravichandran Disciplined – Used Alzheimer Drug on 8-year-old
Houston Chronicle Houston psychiatrist disciplined for prescribing anti-Alzheimer's drug to child By Lise Olsen December 21, 2013 Psychiatrist G.K. Ravichandran A Houston psychiatrist has been disciplined for improperly prescribing anti-Alzheimer's medication and other potentially dangerous drugs to an 8-year-old, according to a recent order by the Texas Medical Board. Dr. G.K. Ravichandran's prescriptions placed the unidentified child at "undue risk for experiencing complications," and the Alzheimer's drug, which is not clinically proven to be safe for children, was given without consent from the patient's mother, the board's March 2012 complaint alleged. Ravichandran, a psychiatrist who has been licensed in [...]
PsychSearch leaves no stone unturned – Victorious Again!
Daily Republic Florida man pries records away from South Dakota officials By Chris Mueller Dec 26, 2013 It took nearly five months, but a Florida man has been allowed to view records about doctors excluded from Medicaid in South Dakota. In July, Ken Kramer, of Clearwater, Fla., asked the South Dakota Department of Social Services for the names of every doctor terminated or excluded from Medicaid, a federal-state health care program for the poor, since 2010. Individuals or companies may be excluded from federal medical programs for various reasons, including health care fraud, overcharging patients, charging for unnecessary services, failure [...]
Halifax psychiatrist Curtis Steele Takes Nude Photos of 14-year-old Patient
Herald News Woman sues psychiatrist over photos By Eva Hoare August 1, 2013 Psychiatrist Curtis Steele A young woman is suing a Halifax psychiatrist for allegedly taking nude photos of her during the course of an appointment with him. The claimant, who was about 14 years old at the time, went to Dr. Curtis Steele for treatment of “attention deficient and depressive symptoms” in 2003, a statement of claim filed in Nova Scotia Supreme Court alleges. “During their last appointment, the defendant informed the plaintiff that he was a photographer,” the claim filed Thursday alleges. “(Steele) asked the plaintiff [...]
Prosecutors Accuse Colorado Psychiatrist Jeffrey Metzner of Bias in Evaluation of James Holmes – Aurora, Colorado movie theater gunman
The Denver Post Prosecutors accuse psychiatrist of bias in James Holmes evaluation By John Ingold December 26, 2013 Prosecutors have accused the psychiatrist who performed a crucial mental-health exam on the Aurora movie theater gunman of having "an unfair bias" that influenced his findings, according to a judge's order issued this month. Dr. Jeffrey Metzner, a University of Colorado psychiatrist with an expertise in the mental health of prison inmates, was the man picked to perform the most closely watched psychiatric exam in state history. Metzner's job was to determine whether James Holmes was sane when he killed 12 people [...]
PsychSearch – Relentless Pursuit of Records on Psychiatrists
Madville Times DSS Admits Public-Records Error with Release of Doctors Excluded from Medicaid By Cory Allen Heidelberger December 28, 2013 Ken Kramer's public-records tussle with the Department of Social Services shows South Dakota state government's unhealthy addiction to secrecy. The Florida man made a simple request last summer: he wanted to know the name of every doctor South Dakota had kicked out of Medicaid since 2010. Kramer maintains a website to publish information about fraud and abuse in psychiatry. The Medicaid information helps him identify psychiatrists who take advantage of their patients and the public. Kramer had little trouble getting [...]
Halifax Psychiatrist Curtis Steele license suspended – “made inappropriate sexual advances toward a male patient, using a dildo” – Has been a psychiatrist for 48 years
CBC News Halifax psychiatrist Dr. Curtis Steele's licence suspended Two civil lawsuits allege sexual misconduct By Blair Rhodes Dec 05, 2013 Psychiatrist Curtis Steele The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia has suspended a Halifax psychiatrist's licence to practice medicine after a complaint was laid against him. The decision against Dr. Curtis Steele was announced Thursday morning in a small newspaper advertisement and on the college's website. Dr. Gus Grant, the college registrar, said Steele's licence was suspended after someone laid a complaint against him. "At present there is one complaint against Dr. Steele," Grant told CBC [...]
Harold Smith, University of Florida Psychiatrist
Gainesville Sun Medical board votes to reprimand UF professor with checkered past -- Excerpt The Florida Board of Medicine has voted unanimously to reprimand a University of Florida psychiatry professor with a history of drug and alcohol addiction for allegedly prescribing a lethal amount of Oxycontin to a patient at an Orlando area hospital. An administrative complaint by the Department of Health said Dr. Harold E. Smith failed to provide a standard of care in treating Alice Tomlinson, who died Dec. 21, 2010 after being admitted to the Central Florida Behavioral Hospital 10 [...]