“Documents from the hospital also detail the equally controversial exploits of
several other psychiatrists who worked with him - and stayed on as late as
1995 - at Fort England.”
“The documents all date from the period 1992 to 1995 during which Fort England
hospital had four psychiatrists - Levin, Nigel Fanshawe and a Hungarian husband
and wife team, Eva and Dusa Papp.”
“Dusa Papp committed suicide after it emerged he was having an affair with a
psychiatric patient. His wife is alleged to have attempted to cure at least one
suicidal patient by suggesting they may, at some time, "fall in love".”
“Fanshawe is alleged to have petrified one patient by making him undress and
then stroking the man's chest hairs, commenting on how he loved a hairy chest
on a man and how rare hairy chests were at the hospital.
Fanshawe emigrated to New Zealand in the mid-1990s and had a malpractice suit
opened against him soon afterward. The case involved alleged improprieties in
prescribing psychiatric medicines.”
“Levin himself is noted for being an enthusiastic prescriber of medicines, in
some instances giving patients up to 60mg of Valium at a time. His colleague,
Papp, gave one patient such a high dosage of medicine once that he was unable
to stay awake for more than an hour at a time for more than a week.”
“All the doctors are alleged to have broken patient-doctor confidentiality on
many occasions and subjected patients to mental stress.”
Aug. 14, 2000 Daily Mail & Guardian
“Inside Dr. Shock’s cuckoo nest” by Paul Kirk