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James Rodney, Brisbane psychiatrist, disciplined over wills – fined
James Rodney The Courier Mail (Australia) Psychiatrist and UQ lecturer Dr James Rodney fined after writing himself into patients’ wills September 19, 2021 -- Excerpt A BRISBANE psychiatrist with "a distinguished career", who became a beneficiary in the wills of an elderly ex-patient and her sister, has been reprimanded for professional misconduct. Dr James Maurice John Rodney was fined $30,000 by a tribunal and ordered to pay $75,000 to the Health Ombudsman, for their costs in bringing disciplinary proceedings against him. Dr Rodney, 72, who has been a psychiatrist for 48 years, is director of a mood disorder unit at [...]
Mansur Butt, Warrington Psychiatrist, found with animal porn on his phone
Mansur Butt Daily Mail NHS psychiatrist, 49, who was found with animal porn on his phone avoids being struck off after GMC accepted he was viewing it to research his patients' 'sexual perversions' -- Excerpt An NHS psychiatrist who watched sickening and illegal pornography featuring animals has been allowed to carry on treating vulnerable patients. Dr Mansur Butt, 49, from Warrington, admitted having bestiality material on his phones but said he only watched it because he was interested in his patients’ perversions and not for his own sexual pleasure. A full GMC ruled that the behaviour of the doctor, who [...]
Abner Pasatiempo, Guam Government psychiatrist, arrested in Alaska
Abner Pasatiempo Pacific Daily News Former GovGuam psychiatrist arrested in Alaska By Steve Limtiaco September 1, 2021 -- Excerpt Dr. Abner Pasatiempo, a former Guam government psychiatrist wanted in connection with official misconduct and harassment, was arrested last week in Alaska, according to the Office of the Attorney General. After his arrest on a Guam warrant, Pasatiempo was released on a $2,000 bail bond and ordered not to leave Alaska, according to the attorney general’s office. The Superior Court of Alaska set a Sept. 30 status hearing for the case. The attorney general’s office in February filed a criminal complaint [...]
Okon Umoh, Chelmsford psychiatrist, suspended
Okon Umoh Gazette Standard Essex psychiatrist accused of forging patient's signature August 23, 2021 By Charlie Ridler -- Excerpt An Essex psychiatrist who faked a signature to obtain a prescription for personal use has been suspended for four months, according to a misconduct report. Dr Okon Umoh has been suspended for writing a prescription for doxycycline, an antibiotic used to treat malaria, for his own use before travelling to Nigeria. According to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service report, Dr Umoh had not given himself enough time to obtain the medication through normal channels, but it was not satisfied on the [...]
Michael Winterhoff, German “Celebrity” Psychiatrist, under investigation
Michael Winterhoff The Times TV psychiatrist Michael Winterhoff accused of fostering cult Oliver Moody August 13, 2021 -- Excerpt A celebrity child psychiatrist is under investigation for allegedly causing “bodily harm” to children by prescribing inappropriate medication. Michael Winterhoff, 66, a star of German television talk shows, expounds strict theories in bestselling books about why parents should not indulge their youngsters. His core edict is that parents must “dissolve the close connection to their children” or risk fostering little tyrants... He is also accused of giving many children unnecessary long-term prescriptions for strong antipsychotics and sedatives. Several former patients [...]
Andrew Nadell, Bay area psychiatrist, accused of raping 13-year-old
Andrew Nadell San Francisco Chronicle Former patient accuses Bay Area psychiatrist of raping her at age 13, state medical board alleges By Annie Vainshtein July 24, 2021 -- Excerpt The Medical Board of California has accused a Burlingame psychiatrist of sexual misconduct, exploitation and abuse after investigating allegations that he raped a 13-year-old patient and forced her to perform other sexual acts in 2009. William Prasifka, executive director of the medical board, detailed the allegations in a document filed with the board on July 7, in an effort to revoke or suspend the medical license of Dr. Andrew Thomas [...]
Rahim Charnia, Mumbai psychiatrist, arrested for “selling cakes infused with drugs”
Rahim Charnia ETV BHARAT NCB arrests psychiatrist for selling cakes infused with drugs July 14, 2021 --Excerpt The NCB seized drug cakes weighing 10 kg from the accused. In addition to this, the agency also recovered 1 lakh 72 thousand in cash along with 320 grams of opium and 50 grams of hashish from the accused. Mumbai: In a major success the Narcotics Control Bureau has arrested a man in Mumbai in connection with a case of drug trafficking. The accused was making and selling intoxicating cakes through his bakery. Originally a psychiatrist, the accused had started a bakery in [...]
Rahim Shafa, Lexington psychiatrist, indicted in money laundering scheme
Rahim Shafa Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 8, 2021 Lexington Doctor and Wife Charged in Superseding Indictment in International Money Laundering and Health Care Fraud Scheme BOSTON – A Lexington doctor and his wife, who works as his office manager, were charged today in a superseding indictment in connection with an international money laundering scheme involving importing illegal, misbranded drugs. Rahim Shafa, 64, was indicted on health care fraud conspiracy, international money laundering conspiracy, money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the United States, illegally importing merchandise contrary to law and receiving [...]
Aruna Khilanani, NYC shrink, talked about shooting white people
Aruna Khilanani New York Post NYC shrink who talked about shooting white people now says they are ‘psychopathic’ By Samuel Chamberlain June 18, 2021 -- Excerpt The New York City psychiatrist who stunned a Yale School of Medicine audience in April when she revealed her fantasies of “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way” characterized white people as “psychopathic” Thursday in an interview with disgraced former CNN pundit Marc Lamont Hill. Dr. Aruna Khilanani — who also revealed in her talk at Yale’s Child Study Center April 6 that white people “make [...]
Emilio González Fernández, Spanish psychiatrist, convicted
Emilio González Fernández The European Times Spanish psychiatrist convicted of sexual abuse expelled by medical association Originally written by Xurxo Melchor, for La Voz de Galicia, in Spanish. June 4, 2021 -- Excerpt: The organisation’s board of directors stresses that Emilio González Fernández’s behaviour is not in line with the ethical and deontological values of the profession. The board of directors of the Official College of Doctors of A Coruña has unanimously approved the expulsion from the institution of the psychiatrist from Santiago convicted of sexual abuse of a patient. Emilio González Fernández is thus provisionally removed from the profession [...]
Jan Freml, Czech psychiatrist, sentenced to 3 years
Google translation: Jan Freml Novinky.cz The psychiatrist wanted to insure the child of premature birth, he was given a condition for endangering the woman May 26, 2021 By Patrik Biskup -- Excerpt Jan Freml, a psychiatrist (68), was sentenced to three years in prison at the Regional Court in Pilsen on Wednesday for trying to suffer serious injuries. According to the indictment, he was supposed to try to induce premature birth in a woman from Ostrava when, at the 35th week of her pregnancy, she was injected at home with the hormone oxytocin, which can only be given in a [...]
Agustina Cosachov, psychiatrist, charged in death of soccer star
Agustina Cosachov Los Angeles Times Diego Maradona’s doctors and nurses charged with involuntary manslaughter in his death By Associated Press May 20, 2021 --EXCERPT BUENOS AIRES — Seven health professionals who tended to Diego Maradona in the days before his death have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Maradona, who led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup, died of a heart attack Nov. 25 at a residence outside Buenos Aires following brain surgery two weeks earlier. He was 60. A medical board’s report given to prosecutors this month concluded that Maradona was in agony for more than 12 hours, [...]
Pritpaul Singh, NJ Psychiatrist, License Revoked
Pritpaul Singh NJ.com 3 doctors lose their licenses for sexual misconduct toward patients, says N.J. attorney general By Karin Price Mueller April 28, 2021 -- Excerpt ... The third revocation was the license of psychiatrist Dr. Pritpaul Singh, 71, “for his alleged involvement in sexual activity with a female patient, violation of the standards for prescribing controlled dangerous substances (CDS), failure to utilize the Prescription Monitoring Program, and failure to monitor patient compliance with treatment,” the state said. Singh was never criminally charged and phone numbers linked to him were out of service. The revocations follow reforms announced by the [...]
Uzma Ehtesham, Virginia psychiatrist, sentenced
Uzma Ehtesham Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Wise Psychiatrist Sentenced For Federal Health Care Fraud ABINGDON, Va.- Uzma Ehtesham, a Wise, Virginia psychiatrist who defrauded Virginia Medicaid and Medicare by fraudulently billing these programs for services not performed, was sentenced yesterday to two years’ probation, six months of which must be spent on home detention, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced today. Ehtesham, 52, pleaded guilty in November 2020 to a one-count Information charging her with health care fraud. [...]
Psychiatrist Peter Steiner, Louisville, Sentenced to 5 years
Psychiatrist Peter Steiner United States Attorney's Office Western District of Kentucky PRESS RELEASE Louisville Physician Sentenced To 5 Years In Federal Prison For Unlawfully Distributing And Dispensing Controlled Substances Friday, February 26, 2021 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Kentucky LOUISVILLE, Ky. – United States District Court Judge David J. Hale sentenced Louisville physician Peter Steiner to 60 months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for knowingly and intentionally distributing and dispensing Schedule II, Schedule III and Schedule IV controlled substances without any legitimate medical purpose and outside the course of professional medical [...]
Tony Tsitos, Virginia Psychiatrist, busted for child porn
Tony Tsitos Florida Times-Union St. Augustine man charged in child-porn case is well-known Virginia psychiatrist Tony Tsitos gained notoriety treating 'Three Faces of Eve' patient By Emily Bloch February 5, 2021 -- Excerpt The St. Augustine man charged Thursday with 15 counts of possession of child pornography is a well-known psychiatrist associated with treating the woman who inspired the Oscar-winning film "The Three Faces of Eve," records show. Tony Anastasios Tsitos, who practiced adult and child psychiatry for more than 50 years in Virginia, was arrested after police said they found thousands of sexual images of children — including some [...]
Absüssamed Köse, resigns from Psych Department
Abdussamed Kose [aka Absüssamed Köse aka Absussamed Kose aka Abdussamed K.] Abdussamed Kose - psychiatrist Bianet ARRESTED IN US FOR ‘SOLICITATION OF A MINOR’ Marmara University’s Head of Psychology Department resigns İstanbul - BIA News Desk January 16, 2021 -- Excerpt As reported by Evrim Kepenek from bianet, “arrested for online solicitation of a minor in the US, the man became a head of department in Turkey.” The Head of Psychology Department of Marmara University has resigned from office. After it was understood that Assoc. Prof. Abdüssamed K., [aka Absüssamed Köse] the Head of Psychology Department [...]
Abdussamed K. – head of Turkish psychology department
Abdussamed K. Abdussamed Kose - psychiatrist Bianet Arrested for ‘solicitation of minor’ in US, man is now a department head in Turkey Having served time in prison and with his physician-in-training permit temporarily suspended in Texas for “online solicitation of a minor”, psychiatrist Abdussamed K. is now the head of the psychology department at a university in İstanbul. By Evrim Kepenek İstanbul - BIA News Desk January 15, 2021 Assoc. Prof. Abdussamed K. is reportedly the head of the Psychology Department of Marmara University in İstanbul despite being arrested for "online solicitation of a minor" in the [...]
University Psychology department head arrested
University Psychology department head Abdussamed Kose [aka Absüssamed Köse] Abdussamed Kose - psychiatrist Duvar English Marmara University Psychology department head arrested for soliciting minor in 2015 January 15 2021 -- Excerpt Absüssamed Köse, a department head at Istanbul's Marmara University is listed on a sex offender registry in the United States for trying to solicit sex from a minor in the state of Texas, news portal Bianet reported on Jan. 15. Köse was working as a physician in Houston at the time of his arrest in April 2015, local media reported, and was arrested as a result [...]
Michael Robertson, Anchorage Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Michael Robertson Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Alaska FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2021 Anchorage Doctor Sentenced For Prescribing Medically Unnecessary Opioids In Health Care Fraud Scheme Anchorage, Alaska – U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason sentenced Michael Don Robertson, 68, a former Anchorage psychiatrist, to 12 months home confinement and 5 years of probation for conspiracy to commit controlled substance fraud and one count of health care fraud. Robertson knowingly and intentionally distributed controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose. [...]
David Lelio, Charlotte Psychiatrist, Sentenced to Prison
David Lelio Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Virginia FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, December 18, 2020 Charlotte Doctor Sentenced to Prison Time for Conspiring to Distribute Prescription Opioids ABINGDON, Va.- A Charlotte, North Carolina-based doctor and his wife were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon on charges they conspired to illegally distribute prescription opioids in the Western District of Virginia and then made a false statement about the conduct, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced. David Francis Lelio, 57, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison. Nadja Siiri Kujanson-Lelio, 51, was sentenced [...]
Muhammad Cheema, Perinton psychiatrist, sentenced to prison
Muhammad Cheema Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Perinton psychiatrist sentenced to 18 months in prison for health care fraud By Will Cleveland December 10, 2020 -- Excerpt A Perinton psychiatrist convicted of health care fraud and making false statements about health care matters was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison Wednesday. Dr. Muhammad Cheema, 47, who operated Upstate Psychiatry at 115 Sully's Trail, pleaded guilty in June. He was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to pay $813,495.48 in restitution to the health care benefit programs he defrauded. Between 2013 and 2017, Cheema submitted 5,000 false claims [...]
Manoj Bhargava, Fredericton psychiatrist, suspended
Manoj Bhargava CBC Fredericton psychiatrist suspended by College of Physicians and Surgeons By Lauren Bird November 17, 2020 -- Excerpt A Fredericton psychiatrist was suspended by the College of Physicians and Surgeons on Tuesday after the college received several complaints about him that alleged misconduct toward patients. Dr. Manoj Bhargava works at Fredericton Addiction and Mental Health, which is part of Horizon Health, and part time at the Student Health Centre at the University of New Brunswick. Alison Larade began seeing Bhargava as a first-year student at St. Thomas University. "It definitely was very traumatizing," she said Tuesday... Larade [...]
Memphis psychiatrist sentenced to four years in prison
Memphis psychiatrist Commercial Appeal Memphis psychiatrist arrested as part of federal opioid crackdown sentenced to 4 years in prison By Corinne S Kennedy October 30, 2020 --Excerpt A Memphis psychiatrist was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for unlawfully distributing opioids. Richard Farmer, 83, was found guilty earlier this year for three counts of distribution of controlled substances outside the scope of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose. U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee D. Michael Dunavant's office announced the sentencing Friday and Dunavant called opioid abuse "an insidious epidemic [...]
Christopher Warner, Army Psychiatrist, under Investigation
Christopher Warner Stars and Stripes Commander at Lewis-McChord base hospital is suspended, under investigation By Rose L. Thayer October 8, 2020 -- Excerpt AUSTIN, Texas — Col. Christopher H. Warner was suspended from his duties as commander of Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., after less than three months on the job, base officials confirmed Thursday. Warner’s suspension went into effect Oct. 2 and was triggered by “an investigation that is unrelated to Madigan or its personnel,” said Lt. Col. Neil Penttila, spokesman for I Corps, which oversees the base. Army Criminal Investigation Command is leading [...]