Over-prescriber jailed for 30 years
13th February 2016
A Californian doctor has been found guilty of second degree murder and jailed for 30 years for overprescribing drugs that caused the overdose deaths of three patients.
According to a report in The BMJ, Hsiu Ying “Lisa” Tseng’s case is the first in which a US doctor had been convicted of murder for overprescribing drugs.
The court heard that Tseng, who obtained her medical licence in 1997