{"id":7684,"date":"2020-06-14T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/state-yanks-license-of-nyc-shrink-patients-called-nuts\/"},"modified":"2020-06-14T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T21:48:00","slug":"state-yanks-license-of-nyc-shrink-patients-called-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/state-yanks-license-of-nyc-shrink-patients-called-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"#State yanks license of NYC shrink patients called \u2018nuts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#State yanks license of NYC shrink patients called \u2018nuts\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n An Upper West Side shrink whose patients described her as \u201cnuts,\u201d \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cdangerous\u201d has finally lost her medical license \u2014 eight years after the state was flagged about her odd behavior.<\/p>\n

The state Board for Professional Medical Conduct\u2019s concluded that Dr. Irene Gurvits \u201cwas not addressing her own psychiatric problems.\u201d Its action came almost a decade after the state first learned she was ill \u2014 when her own lawyer asked that she get psychiatric help, documents show.<\/p>\n

Patients say the doctor\u2019s conduct was so bizarre \u2014 including smoking during sessions, constantly eating pretzels and leaving the office door open for others to hear private conversation \u2014 that some saw her only once and fled.<\/p>\n

A Bronx man recounted to The Post a 2016 visit where the doctor told him, \u201c\u2018That\u2019s bulls\u2013t\u2019 to almost everything I said and when I expressed a concern related to my social<\/a> anxiety, she said, \u2018Who cares?!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI\u2019m confused as to how she was ever licensed to begin with. There were a few moments where I thought I was on some sort of weird prank show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another patient wrote in 2017 Yelp review: \u201cThis doctor is JUST PLAIN NUTS! She told me that she\u2019s actually a schizophrenic, then denied it, then told me it was true. She started calling me at midnight and asking what I was doing, then sent me bizarre emails talking about drugs that they\u2019d fed her in the hospital to \u2018shut her up.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Gurvits, 62, was referred to a state doctors\u2019 assistance program in 2012, but failed to continue her treatment, documents in the disciplinary case against her show.<\/p>\n

A psychiatrist, at the Department of Health\u2019s request, later evaluated her and found she had \u201cmajor depressive disorder with psychotic features,\u201d according to the documents.<\/p>\n

Yet, despite the diagnosis, Gurvits, who also once had an office in Midwood, was allowed to see patients if she took her meds, saw a doctor and was supervised by a monitor.<\/p>\n

She continued to offer odd therapy.<\/p>\n

Richard Sepekoff, 67, an Upper West side man, said Gurvits asked him for help sorting out her own insurance issues and to speak to her mother who needed assistance shredding documents. He saw her in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe seemed that she was volatile and angry at a lot of people,\u201d he said. \u201cShe consistently brought up her personal life on a non-stop basis.<\/p>\n

He said he filed a complaint with the state but never heard from investigators.<\/p>\n

State probers interviewed three patients who said Gurvits disagreed with diagnoses she had previously given them, and told them she thought she was being followed.<\/p>\n

In the case of two patients, she refused to prescribe their medications \u201cuntil they helped her move,\u201d and used the credit card of one for her personal expenses, according to documents.<\/p>\n

Gurvits refused to attend a July 2019 disciplinary proceeding and did not comply with an order for a psych evaluation, state records show.<\/p>\n

The disciplinary committee concluded last month that pulling her license \u201cwas the only app<\/a>ropriate means of protecting the public from the potential harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gurvits did not return requests for comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

If you want to read more News<\/a> articles, you can visit our General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n

if you want to watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“#State yanks license of NYC shrink patients called \u2018nuts\u2019” An Upper West Side shrink whose patients described her as \u201cnuts,\u201d \u201cevil\u201d and \u201cdangerous\u201d has finally lost her medical license \u2014 eight years after the state was flagged about her odd behavior. The state Board for Professional Medical Conduct\u2019s concluded that Dr. Irene Gurvits \u201cwas not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15676,15675,15674],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-evil-and-dangerous-has-lost-her-medical-license-eight-years-after-the-state-was-flagged-about-her-behavior","tag-an-uws-shrink-whose-patients-described-her-as-nuts","tag-state-yanks-license-of-nyc-shrink-patients-called-nuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}