Atty. Gen Xavier Becerra is charging a Northern California doctor with killing four patients by overprescribing opioids and narcotics
California’s attorney general said Wednesday that he is charging a Northern California doctor with killing four patients by overprescribing opioids and narcotics, crimes he linked toAtty. Gen. Xavier Becerra filed multiple criminal charges against Dr. Thomas McNeese Keller, 72, of Santa Rosa related to nine of his patients. The charges include second-degree murder in four deaths and felony elderly abuse for a fifth patient who also died. The murder charges could bring a life sentence.
Keller’s defense attorney, John Cox of Oakland, said that his client is a longtime pain management doctor, and that several of his patients killed themselves and another died of an accidental drug overdose.He “has always, to the best of his medical ability, attempted to take good care of his patients,” Cox said. “There are no grounds for murder charges in this case.”
The charges allege that between 2011 and 2017, Keller drastically increased his patients’ opioid prescriptions while also prescribing other drugs that can cause a dangerous interaction. They say he prescribed Vicodin, oxycodone, OxyContin, Percocet and morphine at levels well beyond accepted medical practice.
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