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Med Mal News

BY ALM Staff
October 02, 2014

Doctor Convicted of Manslaughter for Overprescribing Painkillers

After a four-month trial, Dr. Stan Xuhui Li was convicted in July of two counts of manslaughter, as well as reckless endangerment and criminal sale of a prescription controlled substance, among other things. The jury took six days to deliberate before convicting the doctor on 200 of the 211 charges against him stemming from his prescription of pain killers to 20 people from his Flushing, Queens, NY, office, from which he worked one day per week. His main practice was in New Jersey, where he worked as an anesthesiologist. Perhaps explaining the unusual decision to charge the doctor with manslaughter, rather than just prescribing offenses, New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan said, following the conviction, “My office devoted more than three years and countless resources to this case because we believed that the public needed protection from criminally reckless conduct that purported to be medical treatment but resulted in loss of life, addiction, and harm to patients.” The doctor has been ordered held without bail pending his sentencing this month.

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