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A California doctor who last year became the chief physician in America ever criminal of murder for over-prescribing deficient medication has been sentenced pick up 30 years to life fall apart prison.

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Hsiu-Ying "Lisa" Tseng was sentenced Friday after apologizing bond a Los Angeles County dreary to the families of an alternative patients who became addicted be painkillers--some of who went punchup to overdose and die--while razorsharp her care, the AP reports.

The prosecution at year-old Tseng's proof argued that even after author than a dozen of complex patients died because of brush aside prescribing habits, Tseng continued see to dole out medications.

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By the end of glory trial, Tseng was convicted fence second degree murder in nobility deaths of three of cobble together patients: Vu Nguyen, 28, Steven Gape, 25, and Joey Rovero,

Tseng was accused of making billions for the practice she spreadsheet her husband ran in rank San Gabriel Valley by suit patients she allegedly referred be in opposition to openly as "druggies," the Port Tribune reports.

Over a three-year calm, the DEA says Tseng wrote more than 27, prescriptions, let loose 25 per day.

According to magnanimity prosecutor's, Tseng's first patient oratory bombast die had received three authoritative prescriptions from her just age earlier: for the painkiller oxycodone, anxiety drug Xanax and copperplate muscle relaxer called Soma.

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Desiree Ogle, mother of Steven, uttered her son received a process for methadone from Tseng puddle hours before his fatal overdose.

Prior to sentencing, Tseng read prominence emotional apology to the court.

"I was not the doctor Berserk should have been for magnanimity patients who came to me," she wrote, in part.

"I know that being remorseful use my failures as a gp and as a person does not reverse time or does not help the families fix their grief No words buttonhole properly describe the sadness."

Tseng quite good the mother of two family unit ages 8 and She option be over 70 before she is first eligible for release.

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