Psych Observer – Exposing Bad Psychiatry

This psychiatrist must have pissed off someone, either it be Zeus or the famous Mortal combat character Raiden. Maybe He pissed off one of his electroshock therapy patient, who managed to develop special lightning bolt powers after the result of being shocked so many times?

Rob Ryser |The Journal News

HARTSDALE – A lightning bolt smashed through the roof of a psychiatrist’s home and started a fire last night that destroyed the third floor, the fire department said.

The psychiatrist, Dr. Elon Schwartz, and his family got out of the home at 6 Sunset Lane as soon as they heard the bolt strike the house and saw the second floor filling with smoke.A Hartsdale firefighter who was putting water on the flames inside suffered a minor foot injury.

“He was on the interior attack,” Hartsdale Deputy Fire Chief F. J. Spinelli said. “He either slipped or fell.”

The firefighter was treated at White Plains Hospital Center. His name was not released.

Firefigthters were able to save family valuables and the records of Schwartz’s practice, which he conducted out of the home.

But the fire caused extensive damage to the 105-year-old structure, described by Spinelli as a center hall Colonial.

Firefighters rushed to the 11:10 p.m. emergency after getting 911 call.

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By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet
Posted on July 23, 2008, Printed on July 24, 2008

American psychiatry has been rocked by Congress. Congressional investigators first exposed the financial relationships between high-profile psychiatrists and drug companies. “But now the profession itself is under attack in Congress,” reported the New York Times on July 12, 2008.

Specifically under attack is psychiatry’s premier professional organization, the American Psychiatric Association. The New York Times stated, “In 2006, the latest year for which numbers are available, the drug industry accounted for about 30 percent of the association’s $62.5 million in financing. About half of that money went to drug advertisements in psychiatric journals and exhibits at the annual meeting, and the other half to sponsor fellowships, conferences and industry symposiums at the annual meeting.”

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This poor psychiatric patient, with no significant criminal record doesn’t like being confined and forcefully drugged against his will, tried to run for freedom when he was being transfered into a new psychiatric hospital. I think it’s safe to say that hes not happy with his “treatment”.

From Staff Reports | The News Observer
A mental patient briefly escaped from John Umstead Hospital in Butner on Monday as staff were moving him to a new psychiatric hospital nearby.

According to a police report, the patient was being loaded onto a bus with other patients being transferred to Central Regional Hospital, a new $130 million building less than a mile away.

The patient stated he didn’t want to go to the new hospital and took off running.

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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Radovan Karadzic grew a long, white beard to conceal his identity and even managed to openly practice alternative medicine while in hiding, officials said Tuesday in revealing details of the war crimes fugitive’s capture after a decade on the run.

Karadzic, the wartime leader of Bosnian Serbs, was arrested Monday night in a Belgrade suburb, officials said. A judge has ordered his transfer to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to face genocide charges, war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said.

Karadzic has three days to appeal the ruling. His lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, said he will launch the process to fight extradition on the last day, Friday, to thwart authorities’ wishes for his immediate transfer.

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Manzoor Qadir

LAHORE: A number of patients at the Punjab Institute of Mental Health (PIMH) have attempted suicide, as the executive director changed the modus operandi of treatment owing to non-availability of quality anti-depressants, allege doctors on the condition of anonymity on Sunday.
Lately, nine patients-Nadeem Mubeen, Zulqarnain Hyder, Irfan, Zaman, Tazeem, Bushra Bibi, Nazim Ali, Rahat Jabeen and Tariq Nazir- tried to end their lives.

Earlier, two patients also committed suicide but the administration instead of taking preventive measures tried to hush-up the matter.

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By Terry Date
Staff writer

Seventeen state representatives wrote New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte in May, asking her to seek financial compensation from pharmaceutical companies that have improperly marketed or not fully disclosed side effects of antipsychotic drugs.

The petitioners didn’t know it at the time, but the attorney general’s office had been investigating one of those companies, Bristol-Myers Squibb, since 2004.

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Psychiatrists are on alert.

Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is continuing his investigation into the professional links to big pharmaceutical companies.

In this next step of the ongoing investigation into conflict-of-interest compensation to psychiatrists, Sen. Grassley has sent a letter to the American Psychiatric Association, (APA), asking for an accounting of revenues collected from pharmaceutical companies beginning in 2003.

The association is the voice of establishment psychiatric medicine which sets the standards for treatment.

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A former Fremantle psychologist who used bondage and discipline role-playing to treat a 22-year-old bulimic woman has been ordered to see a psychiatrist after arguing he should not face disciplinary proceedings because he had post traumatic stress disorder since being cleared of sexually assaulting the client.

Bruce Alistair Beaton was acquitted last year of unlawful and indecent assault, and aggravated sexual penetration of the young woman, who also claimed the psychologist whipped her with a homemade cat-o’-nine-tails while treating her between January and March 2005.

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Previous story: Woman dies on the floor of a psychiatric emergency-room

The attorney for the family of a woman who died on the floor of a Brooklyn hospital last month said Friday that his client’s death was preventable.

The city medical examiner determined Friday that Esmin Green, 49, died from blood clots due to inactivity while waiting for nearly 24 hours to be seen in Kings County Hospital’s psychiatric ward. Surveillance video showed Green convulsing on the floor while workers walked by.

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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Lawrenceville psychiatrist was indicted Friday on charges he sexually assaulted more than a dozen of his female patients.

Dr. Mohammad Uzair Qureshi, 45, was indicted on charges that he sexually assaulted 14 patients who came to him for psychiatric care.

Known as “Dr. Q” to his patients, Qureshi worked at the Gwinnett-Rockdale-Newton Community Service Board. The investigation began in late September after a female patient went to police and said that Qureshi told her to pull up her shirt and fondled her during a consultation. After his arrest more women came forward with the same complaint.

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