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Richard Repass, MD Reviews
Woman Files Complaint Against Psychiatrist Who "Diagnosed" Her From 800 Miles Away
Psychiatrist Richard Repass had not spoken with his sister Frances in nine years. Upon finding out from a family member that she was soon to give birth he contacted the social services agency in her county and reported to them that she was "mentally ill" and a danger to her yet-unborn daughter. His "remote diagnosis" --- of someone who was not even his patient--resulted in social services taking custody of the baby and placing her in foster care a few days after she was born.
It was 2004 and Frances was living in Colorado, pregnant with the baby she would later name E.R. (name protected for safety) Richard, a psychiatrist, was in his second year of post-graduate training in Kentucky.
In April of that year, Dr. Repass became aware that Frances was soon to give birth. He reported to ("social services") that Frances suffered from "Narcissitic personality disorder" (as found in psychiatry's Diagnostic and statistical manual), and insisted that this would put the soon-to-be-born baby at risk.
Before Frances was even ready to leave the hospital, Social Services removed her baby E.R. from her custody and placed her in foster care. Social Services took no steps to conduct an independent evaluation of Frances. Social services returned E.R. to Frances 5 months later but convinced her to maintain E.R. in weekend only foster care for another 19 months, because Frances had ptsd from the removal of her daughter and they insisted she needed a rest. Later, when E.R. learned to speak, she would tell Frances that she had been sexually assaulted the entire time in foster care by a nine year old boy living in that home. None of this would have happened had Dr. Repass not made his false reports. (The county and the foster home settled with Frances in 2009 and 2010 respectively).
Paperwork in Frances' possession shows that Dr. Repass was prepared to adopt E.R. away from her. Luckily, that did not come to be. Social workers realized it was he who was mentally ill. Nevertheless, while E.R. was still in weekend care and one year later, in 2005, Dr. Repass faxed a letter to social services which asserted, "Frances Repass should not have custody of her child." and that she could not be helped and that harm to her child was inevitable.
Documentation further shows that Social Services received further reports against Frances for erratic behavior and neglect in 2006 and 2010 from her brother, all of which were deemed unfounded and then closed. There is a letter from a social worker to Dr. Richard Repass saying she had to tell him twice to stop bothering them.
Frances contacted Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) in late 2012 and reported what had happened, with concerns that Richard Repass could try to do this again to her or perhaps to another. Based on the documentation, CCHR filed complaints against Dr. Repass on Frances' behalf, alleging a part, that "...it is unethical for a pyschiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless her or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement."
A state medical licensing board can charge a doctor with unprofessional conduct for ethical violations. CCHR cited other possible violations of the medical practice act in complaints filed with the medical licensing boards of Kentucky, Indiana, and Minnesota (all states where Repass is licensed), as well as complaints filed against Repass with the American Pyschiatric Association and the Minnesota Psychiatric society.
These complaints are currently under investigation.