tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55596652025-12-17T02:46:18.131-05:00Psych Watch<big>Documenting Psychiatrists Behaving Badly</big><hr><small>Of all professions, psychiatrists seem to get into the most trouble. I have been collecting stories about psychiatric screwups for a while. Sadly, it has been disgustingly easy to do. We post stories with links to the original sources. We couldn't make this stuff up if we wanted to. My Name is Sickmind Fraud.</small><hr>Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-60488355918600579582015-08-15T20:33:00.000-04:002016-11-04T20:37:35.030-04:00New York man charged with impersonating doctor, potentially providing mental health services to over 100 patients over a three year old.From this report from Q13 Fox
Donald Lee-Edwards was arrested this week and accused of impersonating a clinical psychologist and medical doctor for three years and potentially providing mental health services to over 100 patients, said the Richmond County District Attorney’s office. He is “a dangerous scam artist who never completed any medical school or doctoral program. He merely bestowed Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-4364183220257499752015-08-13T21:00:00.000-04:002016-11-04T21:02:37.326-04:00 The “Institutional Corruption” of Psychiatry: A Conversation with Authors of Psychiatry Under the InfluenceWe present at this link an interview with the authors of Psychiatry Under the Influence
Here's a snippet
Bruce Levine: Psychiatry Under the Influence attempts to understand psychiatry’s denial and refusal to accept blame for its failures. So, for example, Ronald Pies, editor-in-chief of Psychiatric Times, refuses to blame psychiatry for the dissemination of the disproven chemical imbalance Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-75817128870595388762015-08-08T20:48:00.000-04:002016-11-04T20:50:26.857-04:00VA doctor arrested in Danville for overdose deaths of 3 patients in Indiana Via this report
A VA doctor was arrested in Danville Thursday morning for reckless homicide charges filed by prosecutors in Indiana.
The criminal counts announced Friday by the Marion County prosecutor's office charge that Dr. John Sturman overprescribed narcotics for pain that resulted in the deaths. The patients died in 2010 and 2011, but aren't identified in court records.
Danville policeSickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-79837652601201752492015-08-05T17:26:00.000-04:002016-11-04T17:28:52.389-04:00My son died in a mental health facility. If we keep protecting dangerous hospitals, he won’t be the last.From the Washington Post. Full article at the link
On Nov. 23, I received the call no parent wants to get – my only son was dead. My beautiful, 24-year-old boy was gone. It is a nightmare I have yet to wake up from; one I will never wake up from.
I could barely hear the words from the other end of the line; my cries were drowning them out. I was driving when I received the call, and had to pullSickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-85478216947353178512015-08-03T20:23:00.000-04:002016-11-04T20:25:01.686-04:00Paul Corona, 'Guru' doctor of mood-stabilizing drugs on probation for second timeFrom the Orange County Register
A doctor who described himself in an Orange County Register investigation as the “guru” of mood-stabilizing drugs has been put on probation for the second time by state medical regulators.
The Medical Board of California put Laguna Niguel physician Paul Corona on a five-year probation Friday for gross negligence in treating five patients and failing to maintain Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-80764510325549120172015-08-02T18:56:00.000-04:002016-11-04T18:58:52.344-04:00Riverside psychiatrist pleads not guilty in Medicare schemeReport from the Houston Chronicle
A Houston psychiatrist who was indicted separately in the Riverside General Hospital $160 million Medicare billing fraud scheme pleaded not guilty on Friday and intends to stand trial in August.
Dr. Sharon Iglehart is accused of one federal conspiracy count, two health care fraud charges and a pair of allegations that she made false statements to Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-4086837693643185192015-07-31T14:07:00.000-04:002016-11-04T14:13:16.520-04:00Notorious Psych Ward at Miami-Dade Jail Finally ShutteredFrom this report in the Prison Legal News Website
In a historic culmination to decades of “horrific” living conditions and a pattern of constitutional violations, the Miami-Dade County Jail in Florida has finally closed the “Forgotten Floor” – the notorious ninth floor at the facility that was used to house mentally ill prisoners, often for months and years at a time, with levels of care so Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-44093765330941715342015-07-30T14:21:00.000-04:002016-11-04T14:46:13.465-04:00Anchorage Doctor Sentenced to 3 ½ years for Fraudulently Billing Medicaid and Tampering with Physical EvidenceState of Alaska Press Release here
The Alaska Department of Law, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, announced today that 40-year-old Dr. Shubhranjan Ghosh was sentenced to 3 ½ years of active incarceration. Dr. Ghosh pled guilty to Medical Assistance Fraud and Tampering With Physical Evidence, which he committed between 2010 and 2013 at his practice, Ghosh Psychiatric Services.
Judge Philip Volland Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-12339840352146393872015-07-25T13:50:00.000-04:002016-11-04T13:55:17.352-04:00Timberlawn mental hospital cut off from federal funding over safety issues From a much long report in the Dallas News
Federal regulators are taking the rare step of kicking one of North Texas’ largest psychiatric hospitals out of the Medicare and Medicaid programs for leaving patients in “immediate jeopardy” of injury or death.
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Timberlawn flunked a make-or-break inspection, a final chance to prove it could fix an array of problems after promising improvements Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-67778100697605777652015-07-22T16:59:00.000-04:002016-11-03T17:01:28.775-04:00Poor treatment at Lehigh Valley mental health clinics was evident, patients sayFrom a longer report in the Lehigh Valley Live website
Photo caption:Lehigh Valley Community Mental Health Centers Inc. at 226 Northampton St., Easton, is seen July 20, 2015. It is one of 10 mental health clinics sued July 20, 2015, by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, along with owner Melissa Chlebowski and Melchor Martinez. Martinez is alleged to have run Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-7361003677490043422015-07-21T15:08:00.000-04:002016-11-03T15:12:33.664-04:00Active Shooters and Psychotropic DrugsTaken from the much larger article which is a book review of "Active Shooters and Psychotropic Drugs SSRI’s" by Chris Grollnek and Chris Magee. Without quoting the full review, all we really need to is to cite this list of deaths and "the coincidence" of all these shooting associated with psychiatric drugs.
Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-56387483674747868992015-07-20T17:09:00.000-04:002016-11-02T17:10:17.425-04:00Owners of local mental health clinics face fraud chargesAs Reported in the Philadelphia Business Journal
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania filed a civil health care fraud lawsuit Monday, under the False Claims Act, against an Allentown husband and wife and their network of mental health centers funded largely by Medicaid and Medicare.
The lawsuit names Melchor Martinez and Melissa Chlebowski, both of Allentown, as Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-36240249482215893282015-07-18T16:44:00.000-04:002016-11-03T16:47:47.788-04:00The Hoffman Report: The Investigation into the American Psychological Association (APA)The Hoffman Report is the informal name for the 2015 investigation into the American Psychological Association’s (APA) practices regarding its relaxing of ethical standards for psychologists involved in torture interrogations. The full name for the report is, Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and Torture. It was authored by attorneys David Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-71724359883967953262015-07-16T17:13:00.000-04:002016-11-02T17:19:50.513-04:00Another ethics scandal for the University of Minnesota Dept. of PsychiatryFrom a Report on Fox 9 News Video available at the link
The University of Minnesota has another ethics scandal on its hands. And once again it involves the Department of Psychiatry. This latest case of research misconduct involves falsifying records.
Dr. Ken Winters is a Psychologist who has worked at the U of M for 26 years. He was about to begin a new study for the National Institute on DrugSickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-60524260531746155882015-07-15T15:31:00.000-04:002016-11-03T15:32:52.176-04:00An abrupt end for Houston psychiatric hospital Cambridge facility gives up license and discharges its last patient
One of Houston's largest inpatient psychiatric hospitals closed suddenly last week, leaving a void in a city already underserved.
The 148-bed facility at 7601 Fannin had operated as Cambridge Hospital since 2012. On Monday the phone was disconnected and its website contained only the stark message: Cambridge Hospital is closed. Attempts to reach officials at the facility were unsuccessful.
TheSickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-12955040368951667152015-07-14T15:23:00.000-04:002016-11-03T15:25:40.183-04:00California suspends license for Fairfield psychiatristFrom a much larger report in the Daily Republic
The state has temporarily suspended the license for Dr. William Munn after the Medical Board of California said the psychiatrist, in private practice since 1972 at his Travis Boulevard office, put public health at risk by excessively prescribing drugs to five patients.
Munn disputes any risk to public health and says his suspension is detrimentalSickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-54711626899816696032015-07-13T18:07:00.000-04:002016-11-02T18:14:23.663-04:00Teens are prescribed more medications than ever, while teenage suicides are soaring. One of the paradoxes of child and adolescent psychiatry is that, at a time when teens are prescribed more medications than ever, teenage suicides are soaring. Antidepressants and antipsychotics are supposed to decrease suicide, not increase it.
A report of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of March 6, 2015, says that suicides per 100,000 population among persons aged 10-24 increased from 1.8Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-81753277116313099792015-07-11T14:46:00.000-04:002016-11-02T14:50:57.762-04:00Former Psychiatrist Sentenced for Child Sex CrimesA Report from WNEP
Michael Kessler was sentenced to state prison Friday for trying to lure a 13-year-old boy to meet him for sex back in 2013.
“Michael, why did you tell the court you're sorry? Are you sorry you got caught? Or are you sorry you did it?" Newswatch 16 asked Kessler. He had no response.
Former psychiatrist Michael Kessler of Cresco is headed to a state prison after his Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-34164803142113981352015-07-10T15:43:00.000-04:002016-11-02T15:48:26.531-04:00 State of Conneticut Reaches False Claims Act Settlement with Providers at Children's Behavioral Health Clinic From this Conneticut Attorney General Press Release.
A social worker and a doctor will pay a total of $120,000 to Connecticut's Medical Assistance Program (CMAP) through settlement agreements that resolve civil allegations involving the filing of false and fraudulent claims for payments at a Branford-based outpatient behavioral health clinic for children, Attorney General George Jepsen said Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-66103673744589897642015-07-08T15:45:00.000-04:002016-11-03T15:47:15.369-04:00Woman tells of 'hell on earth' at Limerick psychiatric unitA Sad story of a woman trying to get help, and the failure of the psychiatric system in here city to help.
Snippet from a much longer story
The HSE has said it is to investigate concerns raised by a well-known Limerick businesswoman after she experienced "hell on earth" in a psychiatric hospital unit in Limerick.
Last November, Leona O'Callaghan, 35, spent two months at the 5B Psychiatric Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-18002637138340914482015-07-07T14:56:00.000-04:002016-11-03T14:59:21.415-04:00Recruitment for Psychiatric Treatment Trials: An Ethical InvestigationAbstract of the Report (Paid Access for full article)
This article is about ethics, specifically, the myriad of unethical practices characterizing recruitment for psychiatric trials.
Using a case study approach, honing on recruitment material, and examining the typical, the author explores recruitment in two studies—one involving electroconvulsive therapy, the other, a psychiatric drug. The Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-23552726837965513942015-07-06T17:00:00.000-04:002016-11-02T17:03:05.470-04:00My Trip Through the Polypharmacy BlenderA long story by Rory Tennes on the Risx website, describing his descent into psychiatric hell.
We only present a few snippets, and recommend reading the full article.
I was asked by David Healy to write my own story after he read my comment on another RxISK story. I agreed but have been surprised how hard it was to sit down and do it. I knew the story, the words were in my head. Yet I avoided Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-13170297717462553102015-07-06T15:15:00.000-04:002016-11-02T15:21:56.873-04:00Psychiatric Drugs Are False Prophets With Big Profits - Psychiatry has been hijackedFrom a column in Psychiatry Today by Robert Berezin M.D. While I do not think that psychotherapy is very workable, his criticism of psychiatry is spot on.
Once again, I just finished another consultation with someone from out of state who was desperate to find a therapist who he could talk to. He didn’t want to be pigeon holed into some DSM-5 reductionistic diagnosis. He didn’t want psychiatricSickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-31726962873456182582015-07-03T15:34:00.000-04:002016-11-02T15:36:52.054-04:00Houston Hospital Leaders Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Alarming Psychiatric Fraud Scheme Details of the fraud allegations against Riverside General Hospital executives
The bulk of the Medicare and Medicaid fraud allegations against Gibson, et al. center around Riverside’s psychiatric facilities, which are classified by the government as a “partial hospitalization program” (PHP) A PHP is technically an outpatient treatment facility, but is geared toward the round-the-clock care Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5559665.post-21407717532684268202015-06-27T21:23:00.000-04:002016-11-01T22:05:52.825-04:00Top Five Psychiatric Drugs Linked to ViolenceTo assert psychiatry is careless in prescribing drugs for its various diagnosed disorders is a monstrous trivialization of the problem.
Many of their drugs have been directly linked to suicide and violent behavior, sometimes resulting in murder on a grand scale. In a 2011 study based on data from the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System, 31 drugs were linked with violent behavior.
Here are some Sickmind Fraudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04768504318756916711noreply@blogger.com0