MEDIA
Gerald Fink, Silver Spring Psychiatrist, accused of malpractice
Gerald Fink The Washington Post Psychiatrist's Patient Wins Partial Award By Victoria Churchville June 1, 1985 -- Excerpt A Montgomery County jury last night found in favor of a Silver Spring woman who had accused her psychiatrist of malpractice for having an affair with her, but slashed by three-quarters the damages awarded her by a state health claims panel. The jury of nine women and three men, after sitting through an eight-day trial and deliberating nearly six hours, found Dr. Gerald M. Fink, 53, guilty of medical malpractice for his affair with Frances M. Dawson, 44, a former patient. [...]
Theodore Sabot – California Psychiatrist – Sentenced
Theodore Sabot Los Angeles Times LA Times Archives March 18, 1985 THE STATE -- Excerpt A psychiatrist has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing more than $400,000 from the Medi-Cal program to finance his wife's cocaine habit. Dr. Theodore Jay Sabot, 46, pleaded guilty to grand theft and was sentenced by Sacramento Superior Court Judge Ronald Tochterman. ...Sabot was accused of submitting more than 3,000 false claims to Medi-Cal over a three-year period.
Fred Dalton, Virginia Psychiatrist, convicted on federal charges
Fred Dalton The Washington Post Physician Barred From Prescribing Except at Prison By Celestine Bohlen April 30, 1983 -- Excerpt Virginia authorities have allowed the chief psychiatrist at the State Pentitentiary to remain in his $72,358-a-year job despite his conviction last year on federal charges of using false data in experimental drug tests. Dr. Fred C. Dalton was suspended from practicing medicine in Virginia for four months by the State Board of Medicine when it learned of his guilty plea to two misdemeanor charges initiated by the Food and Drug Administration. The state board then was investigating a separate [...]