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Physician’s negligence results in probation
San Diego Union-Tribune, December 17, 2007
A prominent San Diego neurologist has been put on probation by the Medical Board of California for negligently prescribing powerful painkillers and sedatives that led to his wife's overdose death in October 2003.
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