Psychiatrist George Kubski

Palm Beach Post (Florida)

PSYCHIATRIST GETS YEAR FOR PATIENT’S PILL DEATH

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He killed one of his patients by prescribing more than 20,000 pills in three months.

On Friday, facing 15 years in prison, Dr. George Kubski could offer no explanation.

But fellow physicians testified they had solved the mystery of how a respected psychiatrist with an unblemished record became a pill mill for at least one patient:

Brain damage.

And a judge agreed. In a hearing full of surprises, Circuit Judge Richard Wennet allowed attorney Patricia Woods Marin, who represents the child of the deceased, to offer up a sentence for Kubski:

One year in the county jail, 10 years probation, and $150,000 for a trust fund for the 11-year-old daughter of Jamie Lea Massey, who went to Kubski for pain management after two back surgeries. She died April 11 of drug toxicity…

Excerpted from:
PSYCHIATRIST GETS YEAR FOR PATIENT’S PILL DEATH
By JOHN PACENTI and ANTIGONE BARTON
Palm Beach Post (Florida)

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