Monterey Psychiatrist License Revoked

Monterey Psychiatrist, Richard Seigle’s license was revoked in April of 2008 by the Medical Board of California

In a 50 page document from the Medical Board of California, Seigle was found to be guilty of gross negligence, repeated acts of negligence and incompetence in the treatment of five patients. This included grossly over-prescribing psychiatric medications, prescribing dangerous drugs to patients who were already suffering from withdrawal symptoms, and having sexual relations with a patient.

The sordid details are as follows: Seigle started a sexual relationship with a patient while his own wife was in the hospital. During this relationship, knowing full well that his patient was a recovering alcoholic, he encouraged her to mix medications with alcohol which resulted in her completely falling back into alcohol addiction. Soon after, she, while drunk, attempted to steal merchandise from a store but was caught, arrested and jailed. While Seigle told his ‘patient’ that he was looking forward to getting together with her after she was released, he ultimately told her that he was seeing someone else and could no longer see her.

In an interview with Medical Board Investigators, Seigle denied any sexual relations with the patient, instead attempted to degrade her further by stating, “Knowing her history, she’s accused men of raping her.”, and, “She can be hyper-religious and obsessed about sacrilege…”

To further underscore what a loser Seigle is, he had also lost $1,000,000 of his wife’s money in a Brain Scanning practice, $250,000 of his own investment, had to shut down the business and declare personal and corporate bankruptcy.