Former patients of Joel Cauchi’s psychiatrist Andrea Boros-Lavack break silence

Orum I don’t understand how he came to his consequences. A young woman in need doesn’t have to be treated as a dirty, crazy person. ”

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The patient, who was 27 years old at the time, now completed a mental health degree that gave him power to talk.

Orum I hope that what I can say will confirm others with her experiences, ”he said.

Another patient said An existing relationship In 2014, they complained about Boros-Lavack to the medical regulatory Ahpra.

The former patient claimed that “treatment is not extremely inappropriate and professional”.

He claimed that the doctor would change my medicine without discussing or explanation ve and his feeling “traumatized for a long time”.

“I thought it was important for Ahpra to be aware of this practitioner’s professionalism. I didn’t think it was appropriate to treat patients,” he said.

Ahpra rejected the complaint directly to the victim’s patient without talking.

Boros-Lavack refused to comment on both cases and left the concerns expressed by former patients.

Now, in 2023, Ahpra has placed two conditions in the record of Boros-Lavack, which required training and guiding vulnerable patients and conflicts of interest.

Both conditions were removed from the public registration in mid -2014 after meeting these requirements.

It was a difficult period for the Hungarian -born practitioner. Boros-Lavack was the clinical director of the 27-bed acute psychiatric facility, which entered the liquidation due to $ 11 million debts last year.

There is no suggestion that Boros-Lavack has anything to do with the death of the facility or illuminated for older patients, only some of the unheard of claims.

When you meet An existing relationshipPsychiatrist said that patients with complaints about him should contact Ahpra.

Orum I don’t think it’s a public concern. If you’re worried, you can go to channels like Ahpra or go to Ombudsman and ask them, ”he said.

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Boros-lavack also said that the regulator should inform the practitioner “as soon as possible ,, but he did not know how many complaints were made against Ahpra.

The Ahrpa spokesman said the “confidentiality provisions of the national law,” it operates.

“If a matter is not already open to the public, for example, we cannot provide information about it unless there is a listing of a certain court or a public record,” he said.

Boros-Lavack refused to respond to repeated e-mail requests, which requested a more important response to complaints.

Royal Australia and New Zealand Psychiatrists College spokesman, Bondi’s tragedy “all of us are deeply shaken and reveal the cracks in our mental health system,” he said.

“Psychiatric application contains complex clinical scenarios from time to time and needs a system to work together to provide safe and best results for the patient and society,” he said.

“Treatment and recommendation often are based on a person’s mental health presentation during the examination, and psychiatrists cannot safely predict what may or not in the future.”