There have been a few doctors in the last 10 years that have been convicted of murder for over-prescribing opiates, xanax, pain killers etc.. all the while knowing that they were dealing with drug addicts, yet willing to prescribe the medications to keep the patients coming back to their clinic and to keep making money until some of the patients died from overdosing and the patients were linked back to the doctors. They were not forcing these addicts to abuse the pills and OD. If the addicts had not gotten the drugs from the doc, chances are, they would have gotten it through some other route and ended up the same way. My thought is that the doctors should not be charged with murder. They should be charged for misusing their medical license and at most involuntary manslaughter but murder is a bit of a stretch.
That is a little off the main topic of this post but on that, I agree with Wes. I am also tied in with the medical field and when it comes to cancer and chemotherapy, I think there is a lot of money for doctors to be made prescribing chemotherapy treatments. In many cases, chemotherapy will kill the patient before cancer does, but chemo is pushed on the patient anyway.