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Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | February 17, 2016
Tseng, however, was a lone operator, as was a psychiatrist in the Atlanta area who was charged with prescribing narcotics to those who did need them. He had 12 patients die from overdoses. Investigation in that case is ongoing.
Another California case involved Santa Barbara's Dr. Julio Diaz, sentenced in 2015 to 27 years after a conviction for selling addicts prescriptions for cash. Diaz has been linked, but not charged, in the deaths of 20 patients. And in 2013, SoCal's Dr. Alvin Yee was convicted and sentenced to 11 years for selling prescriptions in Orange County Starbucks shops.
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Tseng's conviction is not without controversy in the medical community. Diane Hoffman, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and an expert in physicians charged in patient deaths, told CBS, that it could make it harder for conscientious physicians to care for legitimate patients with chronic pain.
"Doctors should believe their patients and not be put in a position where they're trying to scrutinize them," she said. "Are you prescribing within the standard of practice? That's a medical question. And it seems the DEA and prosecutors are looking to physicians to be enforcers of the law rather than (being) doctors."
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