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Even to a nation grown accustomed to multibillion-dollar business frauds, the allegations are shocking. A Scottish psychiatrist has charged Upjohn of Kalamazoo, Mich., with falsifying scientific evidence regarding the safety of the sleeping pill Halcion (annual worldwide sales: $240 million). The accusation has prompted a federal investigation. Dow Corning Wright of Arlington, Tenn., stands accused of failing to report that its silicone-gel breast implants were associated with severe side effects -- including the development of autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. That product and similar implants made by other manufacturers have been placed in 1 million...
...Psychiatrist Finds Dream-Promoting Neurochemical...
Defendants over the years have advanced some bizarre arguments to assert insanity. Last year, for instance, a Florida forensic psychiatrist who was charged with bribery unsuccessfully argued that he was driven insane by his years of work with criminals. "Being a forensic psychiatrist for a long time is not a mental defect," declares Dr. Park Elliott Dietz of Newport Beach, Calif. Usually, defendants must have a defined mental illness. Moreover, it has to be directly linked to the crime. "Someone may have schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness, but that doesn't mean they didn't know what they were doing...
Wilson's second client, a three-year-old named Craig, supposedly has been scalded in hot water by his stepfather. Both would normally end up in a psychiatrist's office but the stepfather has a reputation to protect and vehemently denies the allegation. After all, he is the respected Dr. Banner of the pacific Northwest, who, ironically, specializes in anger control seminars...
Though Medical School administrators refuse to release the names of physicians whose cases are being examined by the committee, The Boston Globe reported last year that Dr. Jonathan O. Cole, a Harvard psychiatrist, was under investigation for a possible conflict of interest...