[blueash]

Dr. Akram Ismail, a GI doctor who had an office in The Villages has been arrested for allegedly (he admitted to it) taking upskirt photos of women while they are shopping. His reported defense is that he has a compulsion. He had previous brushes with the law for hiring a hit men to take care of a business rival.

News report is here:
Doctor Akram Ismail arrested after allegedly recording under a woman's skirt in a Groveland Publix - Orlando Sentinel

He seems to have been the chief of internal medicine at our local Villages Hospital

https://about.me/AkramIsmail

And here is the Florida medical board suspension documents showing not only the murder for hire allegations but alcohol and opiod issues as well as a set of psychiatric diagnoses.

http://df7s0hkt8o8r9.cloudfront.net/...8512072012.pdf

It will be interesting to see if the Board actually revokes his license, permanently.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by blueash

Dr. Akram Ismail, a GI doctor who had an office in The Villages has been arrested for allegedly (he admitted to it) taking upskirt photos of women while they are shopping. His reported defense is that he has a compulsion. He had previous brushes with the law for hiring a hit men to take care of a business rival.

News report is here:
Doctor Akram Ismail arrested after allegedly recording under a woman's skirt in a Groveland Publix - Orlando Sentinel

He seems to have been the chief of internal medicine at our local Villages Hospital

https://about.me/AkramIsmail

And here is the Florida medical board suspension documents showing not only the murder for hire allegations but alcohol and opiod issues as well as a set of psychiatric diagnoses.

http://df7s0hkt8o8r9.cloudfront.net/...8512072012.pdf

It will be interesting to see if the Board actually revokes his license, permanently.

Absolutely disgusting and truly frightening to think that people like this are practicing medicine. What a dreadful shock to anyone who has actually been a patient of this man.

[Vic&Judy]

The field of medicine, as well as other life endeavors, including education, religious careers and others, is not immune to miscreants and disturbed individuals.
I hope this poor, sick creature gets the help he needs.
I think you can presume his medical career is over.

[graciegirl]

The rules about who practices medicine seem vastly different than in our home State of Ohio.


There was a widely publicized case of a doctor in The Villages arrested for DUI with several prescriptions in her car of addictive pain killers. I understand she is still practicing.


Scares me.


AND I think if the state raised the standards, we might attract better Physicians. But I am too old to begin a "cause".

AND when does our compassion have to be limited? When people are harmed or placed in harms way, I guess.

[GeoGeo]

This guy was my husband's doctor several years back. He seemed like a nice guy that you would want for a friend. We were shocked when we read about him in the newspaper. I guess we aren't very good judges of character.

[rn1tv]

Yes, graciegirl, and she has a big fancy office at LSL. I agree, too, that FL needs to raise it's medical standards! There is more on Ismail if you do a medical license search at the FL dept. of health. His license should have been revoked long ago, not simply suspended.

[gerryann]

Originally Posted by rn1tv

Yes, graciegirl, and she has a big fancy office at LSL. I agree, too, that FL needs to raise it's medical standards! There is more on Ismail if you do a medical license search at the FL dept. of health. His license should have been revoked long ago, not simply suspended.

Far from a fancy office. Very messy, full of lots of junk. I hadn't know much about her when my insurance gave me her name on my plan.

Was going there over 2 years......never laid eyes on her. She has a very nice NP that I saw, and another NP that I saw occasionally....but don't even know what the DR herself looks like.

About DR Ismail...it does amaze me that this head case can continue to practice after his past criminal history. Hope this is the end of it....what a creep.

[queasy27]

Interesting, especially in light of the recent thread about whether or not you'd continue to see a doctor who has exhibited what you felt were moral and/or ethical lapses in his personal life.

I'll repeat that that I stopped seeing Dr. Hamnik after her DUI (the messy office and foisting me off on her PA were also factors) and would certainly stop going to a doctor who was any kind of compulsive peeper.

These are matters of public record: Hamnik was sentenced to a year's probation here for the DUI. The felony charges for illegal possession of drugs were reduced to misdemeanors and then dropped after the judge ruled she had lawful prescriptions for the 251 pills found loose in her purse.

Hamnik was given a formal reprimand in 2012 by the Virginia Board of Medicine for her behavior in that state for (1) inaccurately documenting that she had personally seen patients when she had not, and (2) being impaired to practice medicine due to mental or physical illness or substance abuse. She has since let her Virginia license lapse.

[Challenger]

There are several others practicing in the villages with serious issues (medicare fraud and others)
Before you go to a doc just Google , you may be shocked what you find.

[jnieman]

This man has a very impressive educational background that has been flushed down the toilet. I'm sure this isn't the first time he has done this. He has a perverted mind and should not be practicing medicine. I've had my brush with a doctor who behaved very unprofessional and inappropriate while examining my ears when I was about 21 years old. I was too young to know that I should have reported him. We put doctors on a pedestal.

[gerryann]

Originally Posted by queasy27

Interesting, especially in light of the recent thread about whether or not you'd continue to see a doctor who has exhibited what you felt were moral and/or ethical lapses in his personal life.

I'll repeat that that I stopped seeing Dr. Hamnik after her DUI (the messy office and foisting me off on her PA were also factors) and would certainly stop going to a doctor who was any kind of compulsive peeper.

These are matters of public record: Hamnik was sentenced to a year's probation here for the DUI. The felony charges for illegal possession of drugs were reduced to misdemeanors and then dropped after the judge ruled she had lawful prescriptions for the 251 pills found loose in her purse.

Hamnik was given a formal reprimand in 2012 by the Virginia Board of Medicine for her behavior in that state for (1) inaccurately documenting that she had personally seen patients when she had not, and (2) being impaired to practice medicine due to mental or physical illness or substance abuse. She has since let her Virginia license lapse.

You are certainly correct in leaving her practice since she always put you with her NP's. For me, it worked out. What I needed was scrips for testing and meds. I was able to accomplish this with the NP's. Sally seemed caring and tried her hardest to get to the bottom of my problems. Unfortunately, the Nuerologists here in TV are few and far between. I did meet a new one at a lecture last week here in TV. He seems good and I may give him a try.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Vic&Judy

The field of medicine, as well as other life endeavors, including education, religious careers and others, is not immune to miscreants and disturbed individuals.
I hope this poor, sick creature gets the help he needs.
I think you can presume his medical career is over.

I also hope he gets the help he desperately needs. What torment and embarrassment he must feel.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by jnieman

I've had my brush with a doctor who behaved very unprofessional and inappropriate while examining my ears when I was about 21 years old. I was too young to know that I should have reported him. We put doctors on a pedestal.

I had a similar situation with a doctor when I was 18. I was too young and naive to know that I should have reported him.
He was much older than I, so he is probably dead today. But I wish I'd know then what I know now.
It makes me sad to think that he probably abused his position of trust with other young girls over the years.

[jnieman]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

I also hope he gets the help he desperately needs. What torment and embarrassment he must feel.

Yes, I hope he does too. Not too many people want to be your friend when you get caught doing something like that.

[jnieman]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

I had a similar situation with a doctor when I was 18. I was too young and naive to know that I should have reported him.
He was much older than I, so he is probably dead today. But I wish I'd know then what I know now.
It makes me sad to think that he probably abused his position of trust with other young girls over the years.

In my eyes remembering the incident very clearly when it hapened 50 years ago means something. I can remember it like it was yesterday and I don't have that great of a memory. I also remember when I was 18 and in the doctor's office having the doctor swat me on my bare behind and say that's quite a tan you've got there! If we knew then what we know now...