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Rajan Thomas ‘monster’ psychiatrist, Australia, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years – sexually assaulted patient
9News 'Frothing at the mouth': Patient slams 'monster' psychiatrist who sexually assaulted her By Reid Butler March 28, 2019 Psychiatrist Rajan Thomas A Melbourne mum has spoken of the terrifying moment she was sexually assaulted by the psychiatrist she'd employed to help her. "He was frothing at the mouth. It was disgusting, I really felt violated," Jodie Fisher told A Current Affair in an exclusive sit-down interview. Ms Fisher first visited Dr Rajan Thomas at Delmont Hospital in 2011 after the death of her father and her son. "He took advantage of me when I was at my most [...]
NY Psych Surendra Johri, forced to surrender his license – sexual abuse – sentencing April 11
WKTV NY REVOKES MEDICAL LICENSE OF PSYCHIATRIST FOUND GUILTY OF SEXUAL ABUSE Dr. Surendra Johri will have to surrender his license to the New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct. March 27, 2019 Psychiatrist Surendra Johri The state has revoked the medical license of the New Hartford psychiatrist found guilty of sexual abuse. Dr. Surendra Johri will have to surrender his license to the New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct. Johri was found guilty of two counts of sexual abuse and one count of forcible touching. He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 11.
Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
The Atlantic HEALTH Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it. By Gary Greenberg April 2019 Issue Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness BY ANNE HARRINGTON NORTON In 1886, clark bell, the editor of the journal of the Medico-Legal Society of New York, relayed to a physician named Pliny Earle a query bound to be of interest to his journal’s readers: Exactly what mental illnesses can be said to exist? In his 50-year career as a psychiatrist, Earle had developed curricula to teach medical [...]
Irish UnNamed Psychiatrist, licese revoked over sexual relationship with vulnerable patient
Irish Times Psychiatrist struck off over sexual relationship with vulnerable patient Woman attended doctor for treatment of bipolar disorder, court heard Irish UnNamed Psychiatrist A psychiatrist who engaged in a sexual relationship with a female patient has been struck off the medical register by the president of the High Court. Mr Justice Peter Kelly confirmed a recommendation from the Medical Council that the consultant psychiatrist’s registration as a medical practitioner be cancelled with immediate effect for professional misconduct and “moral turpitude” over the relationship. Since the psychiatrist admitted the misconduct, he has wound down his practice and retired, the [...]
Utah Psychiatrist Joel Hanson, hired by Ascendant Behavioral Health’s Comprehensive Treatment Center after pleading guilty to privacy and witness tampering
ABC4 Psychiatrist at new substance clinic has addiction and recovery in his own past Dr. Joel Hanson pleaded guilty to privacy and witness tampering charges in 2000 By Rick Aaron March 19, 2019 Psychiatrist Joel Hanson TAYLORSVILLE (ABC4 News) - The owners of a new addiction recovery clinic hope to help in battle against Utah's opioid crisis and the psychiatrist running the clinic has fought his own battles in the past. Dr. Joel Hanson M.D., the Medical Director of the new Ascendant Behavioral Health's Comprehensive Treatment Center on Riverboat Road, has experience in treatment and recovery both as a [...]
Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia Wartime Leader, Convicted of Genocide for Massacre
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Hague Court Set To Rule On Bosnian Serb Wartime Leader Karadzic's Appeal March 18, 2019 Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic A ruling is expected on March 20 on former Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic's appeal against his conviction in The Hague for genocide and other atrocities during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Along with Karadzic’s appeal, judges are also expected to rule on the request of prosecutors to reverse an acquittal on a second genocide charge and sentence the former wartime leader to life in prison for that offense. The rulings at The Hague are [...]
Daniel Grosz
Fox10 Medical board launches investigation after teen's skin ‘melts' off in severe reaction to medication By Bill Melugin March 12, 2019 LOS ANGELES, Calif. (FOX 11) - The Medical Board of California has launched an investigation after a FOX 11 report detailed the story of a local teenager whose skin ‘melted’ off in a severe reaction to medication prescribed to her by her psychiatrist. “The Medical Board of California saw the story that FOX 11 aired, we will be looking into the circumstances of the treatment,” said Carlos Villatoro, the public information manager for the Medical Board. “Every time we [...]
Bassam Awwa, New London psychiatrist, agrees to pay $3.3 million settlement to feds for overbilling drug tests
The Day New London psychiatrist to pay $3.3 million for overbilling of urine drug screen tests March 15, 2019 By Karen Florin Psychiatrist Bassam Awwa New London area psychiatrist Dr. Bassam Awwa, and his medical practice, Connecticut Behavioral Health Associates, have agreed to pay a $3.3 million settlement to the federal and state governments for overbilling Medicare and Medicaid for drug and alcohol urine tests. U.S. Attorney John H. Durham announced Friday that Awwa and his practice, known as CBHA, entered into a civil settlement agreement in which they will pay $3,382,004 to resolve allegations that they violated the [...]
Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic could be jailed for life when war crimes court delivers verdict next week
Balkan Insight Radovan Karadzic: Psychiatrist-Poet Who Led Bosnian Serbs to War Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs’ wartime president, spent years on the run before he was caught and tried, and could now be jailed for the rest of his life when the Hague war crimes court delivers its final verdict next week. March 14, 2019 Psychiatrist Radovan Karadzic Radovan Karadzic was born in the village of Petnica near Savnik in Montenegro in June 1945, some 2,000 kilometres from in Scheveningen, near The Hague, where he is currently in custody at the United Nations Detention Unit while awaiting the final [...]
The Boston Globe July 2, 2011 Saturday Harvard doctors punished over pay; 3 accused of not disclosing consulting fees BYLINE: By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff SECTION: NEWS; Metro; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 897 words Concluding a three-year investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School sanctioned renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Biederman and two colleagues after finding they violated conflict of interest rules. In a letter to co-workers yesterday, Biederman and Drs. Thomas Spencer and Timothy Wilens said the hospital and medical school ``have determined that we violated certain requirements'' of the institutions' policies. They did not specify the nature of [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire September 3, 1999, Friday, BC cycle Reding fails to show for arraignment; warrant issued BYLINE: By MARY PEREA, Associated Press Writer SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 625 words DATELINE: BERNALILLO, N.M. An arrest warrant was issued Friday for a retired Michigan psychiatrist and associate of Jack Kevorkian who is charged with murder in New Mexico. Georges Reding, 74, of Galesburg, Mich., failed to appear at his arraignment here before state District Judge Louis P. McDonald and the judge immediately issued a warrant for his arrest. No attorney appeared on Reding's behalf, either. Reding [...]
Joseph Jackson
The Boston Herald November 14, 2011 Monday BHR Edition State board lets docs off easy; Abuse of patient must be a crime BYLINE: COLMAN M. HERMAN SECTION: OPINION; Commentary; Pg. 23 Vol. 29 No. 318 LENGTH: 624 words When a suburban homemaker shows up at the emergency room at Newton-Wellesley Hospital feeling suicidal, she sees a psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph A. Jackson, who gives her a kind of treatment she never expected. Over the course of four sessions, what starts out as a professional relationship quickly turns social, then manipulative, and finally sexual and exploitative. As a result, Jackson's license to [...]
Soo Shuenn Chiang, Singapore Psychiatrist, guilty of failing to maintain patient confidentiality
Today S$50,000 fine for psychiatrist who failed to protect patient’s confidential info By Neo Chat Chin March 6, 2019 Psychiatrist Soo Shuenn Chiang SINGAPORE — A psychiatrist from the National University Hospital (NUH) has been fined S$50,000 for failing to verify a caller’s identity before writing a memo to refer a patient to the Institute of Mental Health. The caller turned out to be the patient’s brother and not her husband as he had claimed. And although the memo was addressed to ambulance personnel or the police officer-in-charge, it was handed to the brother, who used it to support [...]
The Boston Globe July 24, 1997, Thursday, City Edition Activists angered over ad for study; Psychiatrist is accused of abuse BYLINE: By Dolores Kong, Globe Staff SECTION: METRO/REGION; Pg. B1 LENGTH: 555 words A McLean Hospital psychiatrist who is under state medical board investigation for alleged sexual misconduct with a patient is recruiting 18-to-22-year-olds who were sexually abused as children for a study, a revelation that prompted outrage yesterday from victims' advocates. Dr. Martin H. Teicher, well known for his work with seasonal affective disorder and the antidepressant drug Prozac, was listed as the contact in an advertisement in yesterday's [...]
The Associated Press State & Local Wire January 9, 2002, Wednesday, BC cycle State medical board disciplines two doctors SECTION: State and Regional LENGTH: 183 words DATELINE: BOSTON A doctor who allegedly attacked his friend with a baseball bat had his medical license suspended Wednesday in one of two disciplinary actions taken by the state Board of Registration in Medicine. Edgar A. Buttner, 39, a certified psychiatrist and neurologist, was arrested last week in Boston after allegedly beating a fellow doctor who visited his Back Bay apartment. The friend, Peter Muz, suffered four broken bones. Buttner, who was a postdoctoral [...]
Hei Young Oh, New York Psychiatrist – License Revoked – in one case prescribed 7,000 narcotic pills to pregnant patient
Newsday (New York) Doctors Slapped With Sanctions By Roni Rabin December 27, 1995 The state has revoked the medical license of a Huntington Station physician who liberally dispensed prescriptions for controlled substances such as Valium, Percocet and codeine, in one case prescribing 7,000 narcotic pills to a patient even though she was pregnant. In addition to yanking the license of Dr. Hei Young Oh, the state Office of Professional Medical Conduct suspended the license of another Huntington Station physician, Dr. Veeresh Patil, who described himself as a psychiatrist specializing in weight reduction. Patil, who is allowed to continue practicing medicine [...]
Anne-Francis Nicol, Rhode Island Psychiatrist, indicted on criminal charges of first-degree arson
The Associated Press Psychiatrist suspended over prescriptions November 11, 2003 A psychiatrist who had two patients die of drug overdoses while they were undergoing a controversial treatment for pain has had her license indefinitely suspended. The state medical board on Monday suspended Anne-Francis Nicol's license to practice medicine. Nicol, whose privileges to prescribe narcotic painkillers were suspended in June 2002, had given the patients who died a narcotic-like painkiller and an anti-anxiety drug. The Woonsocket Call reports the board's administrator said the drugs prescribed, Darvon and Doxetein, were not a violation of the prior order, but said Nicol failed to [...]
Allan Clark
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Suboxone clinic owner gets halfway house, home confinement in $1.4 million opioid tax scheme By Torsten Ove March 12, 2019 A Washington County psychiatrist was sentenced Monday to a halfway house and home confinement for not paying income taxes on cash-only payments he received at the Suboxone clinic he ran. U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab imposed a term of five years of probation on Allan W. Clark, with 180 days at Renewal, Inc., and another 180 days at home. He must also pay a $15,000 fine and nearly $400,000 in restitution to the IRS on cash payments he [...]
J. Vernon Magnuson
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Conyers psychiatrist charged in death plot Doctor targeted wife, police say By Duane D. Stanford April 30, 1994 A Conyers psychiatrist was arrested at his office and charged with conspiring to kill his estranged wife after he allegedly offered to pay an undercover officer and another man $ 9,000 to kill her. Dr. J. Vernon Magnuson, 53, of 2690 Valleydale Drive in Conyers, was freed on a $ 50,000 bond. Rockdale County prosecutors had asked for bond of $ 500,000. Conyers authorities and the GBI began investigating Magnuson several weeks ago after Covington police arrested [...]
Debbie L. Miller
Asbury Park Press March 24, 2002 Sunday Doctor's abrupt departure stranded patients TOMS RIVER PSYCHIATRIST CHECKED INTO DRUG-REHAB PROGRAM BYLINE: JAMES W. PRADO ROBERTS/STAFF WRITER SECTION: A; Pg. 1A LENGTH: 1519 words IT was an office answering machine that told Judy Rivera that her Toms River psychiatrist, Dr. Debbie L. Miller, had temporarily suspended her practice. Miller was on extended medical leave, the recorded message stated in late December, and it noted three telephone numbers patients could call in order to continue their care with three other psychiatrists. Two of the doctors on the list didn't know Miller and were [...]