You gotta love some of the comments!
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@philip90503 She graduated from an osteopathic school in Michigan and today just about anyone can get into Osteopathic Medical Schools as long as you have money. She is a D.O. not an M.D."
With all the new DO schools this comment isn't terribly far from being the caseYou gotta love some of the comments!
"edlands Laker-Dodger fan
@philip90503 She graduated from an osteopathic school in Michigan and today just about anyone can get into Osteopathic Medical Schools as long as you have money. She is a D.O. not an M.D."
Actually, it is terribly far from being the case. Your net worth has nothing to do with admissions decisions, even at newer schools.With all the new DO schools this comment isn't terribly far from being the case
With all the new DO schools this comment isn't terribly far from being the case
With all the new DO schools this comment isn't terribly far from being the case
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/stats-for-do-school.22751/#post-17026544It is much harder to get in now overall than back then. A 25 MCAT could have given you a decent shot at KCU at one point, now it is their bare minimum. Even new schools have bare minimums of before secondaries or interviews that serve as a filter.
This is absolute BS. Now we're responsible for when a patient decided to take alcohol with their medication?"Joey, died nearly six years ago after mixing alcohol with Xanax and oxycodone he had obtained from Tseng"
So you rather just cut them off immediately from a benzo so they can have seizures and die faster? Maybe don't give them the opioid either so they can go get heroin in the streets.She wrote them a prescription for the very thing they're addicted to. She shoved them over that cliff.- Deputy Dist. Atty. John Niedermann
Did she know this? Did she prescribe an amount that's beyond what the patient needs? Do drug dealers never get sick?The investigation also found that Tseng's patients included at least three people who had been charged with dealing drugs and a fourth who was suspected by police of doing so.
"I have seen her prescriptions. It was a long time ago but there were always totally ridiculous. Always max quantity and strength. Oxycontin 80mg 1TID #270 Roxycodone, Xanax 2mg #180, Soma #270 or something like that. And the people coming in were always sketchy, 25 year olds and such, no insurance. There was a LA times or OC register article where they had undercover DEA agents go in and she would just give them a script without even examining them and people were in her parking lot comparing what they got."
A. Drug Usage Reports for OxyContin 80 from 2008 to January 2010 revealed that the majority ofthe prescriptions filled by Pacifica Pharmacy were for 80 mg strength and that several prescribers, induding Dr. T., wrote those prescriptions.
B. From January 1,2009, to January 6,2010, Dr. T. wrote 11,486 controlled substance prescriptions, 917 of which were for OxyContin 80 mg, 654 of which were for Opana ER 40 mg, and 2,671 of which were for Alprazolam 2 mg.
C. Pacifica Pharmacy filled 1,844 ofDr. T.'s 11,486 controlled substance prescriptions, about three times more than the next highest number filled in Pacifica Pharmacy's trade area.
D. From March 25,2008 to January 13,2010, Pacifica Pharmacy dispensed more than 81,000 prescriptions. Controlled substances accounted for 14,063, or 17 percent ofthe prescriptions; OxyContin 80 mg accounted for 42 percent of all Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions. Pacifica Pharmacy filled more OxyContin 80 mg prescriptions than were filled by surrounding pharmacies - 803 OxyContin 80 mg prescriptions were filled by Pacifica Pharmacy; 389 were filled by Medical Towers Pharmacy; 281 were filled by Walgreens #5771; 129 were filled by CVS #8850; 38 were filled by CVS #6782,21 were filled by Sav On #6124, and even fewer were filled by other pharmacies.
E. Ofthe 18 Pacifica Pharmacy patients that Inspector Wong selected for review because he observed that those patients presented OxyContin 80 mg prescriptions written by Dr. T., 15 patients had traveled 35 or more miles from 10 their home to see Dr. T. and 15 ofthem lived 20 miles or more from Pacifica Pharmacy.
F. Dr. T. 's prescribing practices, based on a review of some prescriptions filled by Pacifica Pharmacy, showed duplication in therapy (e.g., OxyContin 80 mg. and Opana ER were prescribed in combination and were to be taken at the same time) and a combination of several drugs was often prescribed (e.g., the combination ofAlprazolam and Opana or the combination ofAlprazolam, hydromorphone and OxyContin).
G. Many ofDr. T. 's patients to whom OxyContin was dispensed paid in cash.
According to Investigator Wong, OxyContin has a value of $1 per mg on the black market, so that the cost of an OxyContin 80 mg tablet on the street is $80.
I feel at MOST this should be considered a manslaughter. Murder?! Oh cmon!
I'm conflicted about it the more I read. I want to side with the majority opinion for my own selfish purposes. This will bring a lot of heat on all of us. However, if a physician was informed beforehand of multiple deaths associated with their prescribing habits, and continued said prescribing habits until more deaths resulted, forcing the police to knock down their door, did they not dig their own grave? I'm pissed off that the California Osteopathic medical board didn't suspend her license and scare some sense into her before this all came to fruition.
Edit:
http://abc7.com/news/former-recepti...-rowland-heights-doctors-murder-trial/971035/
There's a video of her office
Edit:
http://abc7.com/news/former-recepti...-rowland-heights-doctors-murder-trial/971035/
There's a video of her office
Holding a doctor accountable for murder because of the deceptive actions of addicts is insane. I hope the decision is appealed.
I'm pleasantly suprised at the number of comments which disagree with the verdict.
Most FM patients have a hard time getting off their couch. Kudos to anyone who can wean them off their pain meds.
I'm not a lawyer but the definition requires deliberate intention to kill. Clearly if money was the motivation then she would not have deliberately tried to kill her patients. Perhaps she took unnecessary risks with their lives, but that doesn't mean she tried to kill them.The problem I see is I don't know how the verdict can be appealed. Generally appeal courts is limited to procedural manners. Unless the defense can put up a compelling case that this really doesn't meet the definition of second degree murder, then I doubt that an appeal will be successful. In California, murder is differentiated from man slaughter by the presence of malice. Malice is defined as...
188. Such malice may be express or implied. It is express when
there is manifested a deliberate intention (emphasis added) unlawfully to take away
the life of a fellow creature. It is implied, when no considerable
provocation appears, or when the circumstances attending the killing
show an abandoned and malignant heart.
If the argument is that she is prescribing controlled substances only for money and doesn't give 2 cares if her patients dies from it, especially if she has had several patients already overdose from her prescribing practices, then that would meet that definition.