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I was initially inclined to think that the Taiwanese medical system with doctors prescribing medicines that won’t treat the illness after little examination might have influenced her. However, it seem like she just wanted to make extra money.
She’s not Taiwanese, she’s American. AND she got her degree at Michigan State College of Osteopathic Medicine. :neutral:
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I suppose that goes back to the question of whether Taiwanese immigrants to the USA consider themselves Taiwanese or American, depending on their attachment to Taiwan (or in a general sense : country X person immigrates to country Y, are they country X or Y?.
The article stated she was Taiwanese, who immigrated to the USA around 15. Most Asians I’ve meet who arrived in the USA around that age still have an attachment to their home country and don’t really identify themselves as American. If you ask them what they are, they will say “Taiwanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Asian, Thai, Filipino, Japanese, etc”. I rarely hear someone who is ethnically Asian state they are an American. Maybe Asian-American, but I’ve never heard self-identification as an American.
Anyway, her trail was late last year + she was convicted. Sentenced earlier this month to 30 years. Sounds fair to me.
And this sounds very famiiar Taiwan territory:
Joey and his frat buddies drove 360 miles specifically to buy drugs. If not from her, guarantee they would have found them somewhere else. Maybe his pill-popping “brothers” should bear some of the responsibility?
360 miles is a long way! There can’t be many such good doctors in the US of A, and there’s one less practising now. That’s for the best, I believe.
No sympathy for her, she knew what she was doing.
So did Joey and his friends.
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I’m all for Joey et al roaming the States to find prescription meds. That’s their choice, their business.
But a qualified & practising doctor doling them out like candies - there’s a lack of professional ethics there, and she shouldn’t be able to hide behind her pill ‘customers’.
30 years is a bit much though.
Possibly. What is she likely to serve of that? In the UK, she’d be out in 15 if well-behaved.