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   From: leroysoetoro@usurper.org   
      
   A judge on Friday sentenced a Rowland Heights doctor to 30 years to life   
   in prison for the murders of three of her patients who fatally overdosed,   
   ending a landmark case expected to reshape how doctors nationwide handle   
   prescriptions across the country.   
      
   The sentence came after a Los Angeles jury last year found Dr. Hsiu-Ying   
   “Lisa” Tseng guilty of second-degree murder, the first time a doctor had   
   been convicted of murder in the U.S. for overprescribing drugs.   
      
   Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli said before sentencing Tseng that   
   she had attempted to blame patients, pharmacists and other doctors rather   
   than take responsibility for her own actions.   
      
   "It seems to be an attempt to put the blame on someone else," he said.   
   "Very irresponsible."   
      
   Tseng, wearing blue jail scrubs, apologized to the victims' families, her   
   family and "medical society."   
      
   "I'm really terribly sorry," she said, before addressing the victims'   
   relatives in the courtroom specifically. "I have been and forever will be   
   praying for you. May God bless all of you and grant comfort to all who   
   have been affected by my actions."   
      
   The 46-year-old former general practitioner is among a small but growing   
   number of doctors charged with murder for prescribing painkillers that   
   killed patients. A Florida doctor was acquitted of first-degree murder in   
   September.   
      
   Some experts fear that Tseng’s conviction will usher in a precarious new   
   reality – a scenario in which doctors fearful of prosecution are hesitant   
   to prescribe potent painkillers to patients who need them.   
      
   “When you use the word 'murder,' ” said Dr. Peter Staats, who specializes   
   in pain care, “of course it’s going to have a chilling effect.”   
      
   Staats said he believes an aggressive medical board – not prosecutors –   
   should go after reckless doctors. But, he added, any doctor who is   
   prescribing pills knowing that they are being abused or diverted shouldn’t   
   be called a doctor.   
      
   “That’s not the practice of medicine,” said Staats, president of the   
   American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.   
      
   Dr. Francis Riegler, a pain specialist who works in Palmdale, said he has   
   followed Tseng’s case and talked about the prosecution with fellow doctors   
   across the country.   
      
   “We agree,” he said, “that if you’re doing the right thing – if you’re one   
   of the good guys, if you will – you don’t need to worry about being   
   prosecuted for murder."   
      
   During Tseng’s trial, Deputy Dist. Atty. John Niedermann told jurors that   
   there were “red flags” in her prescribing habits.   
      
   More than a dozen times, the prosecutor said, a coroner’s or law   
   enforcement official called with the same stark message: “Your patient has   
   died.”   
      
   Her prescribing habits, Niedermann said, remained unchanged.   
      
   The prosecutor told jurors that Tseng wrote a man’s name on prescriptions   
   so his wife could get twice as many pills, openly referred to her patients   
   as “druggies” and sometimes made up medical records.   
      
   Her motivation, Niedermann said, was financial.   
      
   Between 2007, when Tseng joined the Rowland Heights clinic where her   
   husband worked, and 2010, tax returns show that their office made $5   
   million, he said.   
      
   Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey said the conviction sent an unflinching message   
   to medical professionals.   
      
   “In this case,” Lacey said, “the doctor stole the lives of three young   
   people in her misguided effort to get rich quick.”   
      
   Tseng was convicted of murder for the deaths of Vu Nguyen, 28, of Lake   
   Forest; Steven Ogle, 25, of Palm Desert; and Joey Rovero, 21, an Arizona   
   State University student who prosecutors say traveled more than 300 miles   
   with friends from Tempe, Ariz., to obtain prescriptions from Tseng at her   
   Rowland Heights clinic.   
      
   The jury also found Tseng guilty on more than a dozen illegal-prescribing   
   counts.   
      
      
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