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Doctor admits disguising himself as a nurse to try to kill his mother's partner with poison: "Stranger than fiction"

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Thomas Kwan pretended to be a community nurse delivering booster shots, prosecutors say.

Patrick O'Hara , 72 , was given a toxin which caused a "rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease" Kwan , 53 , initially denied attempted murder but changed his plea to guilty after prosecutors laid out their case.

Prosecutor: Kwan used his "encyclopedic knowledge" of poisons in his plot to kill his mother's long-term partner.

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