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Tseng, the osteopathic physician dubbed "Dr. Feelgood" by prosecutors, was arrested on a felony complaint in 2012 after a federal investigation found she had knowingly over-prescribed painkillers to patients without a serious medical need. The state medical board revoked her license shortly after her arrest. The district attorney's office estimated that her Rowland Heights, California clinic raked in $5 million during the roughly three-year-period when nine of her patients died. Tseng could face life in prison when she's sentenced on December 14.For the families of the young men who died after taking painkillers prescribed by Tseng, the guilty verdict is a form of justice. "It's everything we hoped it would be and with the nationwide media attention it is putting all those other dirty doctors out there on notice that they are not above the law," April Rovero, whose 21-year-old son Joey fatally overdosed nine days after paying Tseng a visit in 2009, said in an email on Sunday.Still, the conviction might be missing the point, says Beletsky, who acknowledges that Tseng was extremely far from being a model physician. She ignored multiple pleas from family members who begged her to stop prescribing opioids to their loved ones, according to Deputy District Attorney John Niederman.On Vice News: Police in This Massachusetts Town Have Started Helping Heroin Users Instead of Arresting Them
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