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Richard A. Kauff

Meet Dr. Richard Kauff. According to news sources, Kauff is serial sexual predator, perhaps not of the same order as Larry Nassar- but does quantity really matter when it involves sexual abuse of our children? One source reported: Kauff has been charged with 13 counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old and four counts of rape of a child under 16 years old with…

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William M Burke, MD

William Burke, MD Burke cause quite a stir a few moths ago when he was speaking at an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists annual meeting. In a viral video a man is seen walking up to Burke and accusing Burke of sexually assaulting the man’s wife. Transcript from Medpage Today states: “This [expletive] sexually assaulted my wife 7 years ago,” the audience member alleged right…

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Manuel L. Fontes, MD

This is Manuel Fontes, MD. He was previously an anesthesiologist at Yale University Department of Anesthesiology.  In 2021, six female department members filed sexual harassment lawsuits against Fontes and the university.  According to one media outlet: Six female doctors say in the suit that Dr. Manuel Lopes Fontes — a high-ranking professor who was division chief of cardiac anesthesiology at…

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Frank Alario, MD

This somewhat smarmy looking man is Frank Charles Alario, MD.  Alario, former physician with medical practices in New Jersey, New York, and Florida admitted wrongfully disclosing patients’ protected personal health information. According to the Department of Justice Alario permitted Keith Ritson to have significant access to his office, medical files, and patient information. Alario allowed…

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Sherri Tenpenny, DO

Tenpenny, no real need to call her doctor anymore has finally had her license suspended by the Ohio Medical Board. Tenpenny is an international superstar when it comes to blatant unscientific misinformation. Wikipedia puts it this way. Sherri J. Tenpenny is an American anti-vaccination activist and conspiracy theorist who promulgates the disproven hypothesis that vaccines cause autism. An…

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BOTOX

It’s a bit unusual that we get to talk about someone who’s doing something right. But over at Medscape, Alok S. Patel, MD, a pediatric hospitalist, raises interesting questions about the training and skills of providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants) who offer BOTOX cosmetic and dermal filler. Patel points out, quite rightly, that many physicians are now looking for a…

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Michael Alson Smith

Smith, I won’t call him a doctor, is a predator. He’s the worst type pf person professing to offer help and healing while busing patient rust and the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship. Smith has been in the news for years (since at least 2018). But, recently he pleaded guilty to drug distribution, health care fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. He faces 36 months in federal…

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Damian Jacob Markiewicz Sendler

Don’t let the dashing looks fool you. Sendler was “busted” by none other than Jennings Brown of Gizmodo.  Brown writes: Sendler is a serial fabulist… Many of these platforms have published Sendler’s lies and publicized his bizarre and irresponsible studies on necrophilia, zoophilia, lethal erotic asphyxiation, and sexual assault. And until recently, he was soliciting patients through his website…

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Spyros Panos, MD

This smiling fellow is confessed felon and former orthopedic surgeon Spyros Panos. In 2014 he was sentenced to Federal prison. According to a press release at that time: Panos performed thousands of Surgical Procedures, and often as many as 20 or more in a single day, for which he and the Medical Group submitted claims in excess of $35 million to Health Insurance Providers. Health Insurance…

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Khalid Moussa, M.D.

Photo from: https://www.northokaloosa.com/find-a-doctor/moussa-khalid-md-4076 Moussa is a gastroenterologist associated with North Okaloosa Medical Center in Crestview, Florida. Since the early 2000s he has been repeatedly accused of professional sexual misconduct in Connecticut, Louisiana, and Florida. He has also had complaints to law enforcement. Most recently he was not charged in Florida.…

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Adam Litwin, MD

College dropout Litwin now has a “real” medical degree. He’s also a convict. But he’s really sorry about all that. Now he wants to practice medicine. Let’s take a look. Litwin wanted to be a doctor since he was a boy. After dropping out of college he began hanging around UCLA’s medical library. One day someone mistook him for a resident physician. Later, he put on a white coat and entered the…

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Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz, Jr

Ortiz was “deemed a “medical terrorist” by prosecutors after allegedly poisoning IV bags, reportedly causing a fellow physician’s death and cardiac emergencies for 11 other people.” In September 2022, a Texas Medical Board disciplinary panel suspended the license of, Ortiz, a Baylor Scott & White doctor, connected to its investigation into a ‘compromised’ IV bag that caused a death and serious…

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Mark Guilfoyle

Guilfoyle was a radiologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. He was not very good at his job as evidenced by the fact that he allegedly surrendered his privileges at Dartmouth. The New Hampshire Board was aware of his apparent incompetence for several years. Eventually the board “sanctioned” him by prohibiting him from reading mammograms and fining him $750.   The board…

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Frank Alario, MD

Frank Alario is a nightmare for patients. We see our physicians and we depend on their ability to treat out relationship with absolute confidentiality. We share the most intimate parts of our live with them. We tell them things we do not share with spouses or even clergy. According to the DoJ press release: As an outside pharmaceutical sales representative not associated with Alario’s medical…

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Dark and Fischer

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Jeffrey A. Lieberman

https://thegrio.com/2022/02/26/columbia-professor-suspended-black-model-skin/ Don’t let the charming and disarming smile fool you. This is Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D., the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center But what is it exactly that makes Lieberman a reprobate? Well, despite his apparent successful career as an Ivy League psychiatry professor, he’s…

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Cuyler Burns Goodwin, DO

Cuyler Burns Goodwin, DO

In keeping with this weeks parade of psychiatrists let’s turn to Cuyler Goodwin, D.O. Goodwin was in practice in Santa Rosa, California. A series of spectacularly bed decisions led to him employing patients, having extramarital affairs with patients, and drugging and exploiting patients under the guise of “therapy.” The charges can be found at Osteopathic Medical Board website- they’re…