Anna Nicole At Her Peak
You may not give a darn about the late buxom sex-pot Anna Nicole Smith but the recent verdict in a Los Angeles criminal case stemming from her drug-overdose death has certainly captured the attention of doctors nationwide. I’ll bet insurance companies specializing in malpractice medical coverage have snapped to attention as well.
After Anna Nicole Smith died in February 2007 three of the people closest to her – her attorney and lover Howard K. Stern, her psychiatrist, Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and her personal physician, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were criminally charged. Among the most serious of the original 23 charges was “providing controlled substances to a known addict.”
Interestingly, the trio was never accused of actually causing Smith’s death and along the way some of the other charges were dismissed. It came down to a trial about whether they’d engaged in a conspiracy to help the 39 year old former Playboy cover girl and TV personality obtain prescription drugs through the use of false names and misrepresentation.
During nine weeks the jury testimony boiled down to this: [click to continue…]
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