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A senior cardiologist at Berlin’s Charité hospital has been sentenced to four years in prison over the death of two patients. The 56-year-old physician was found guilty of two counts of manslaughter by a court in Berlin on Friday after determining that the doctor was responsible for killing the two patients with overdoses of the anaesthetic Propofol. The patients, a 73-year-old man who died in 2021 and a 73-year-old woman who died in 2022, were being treated at the hospital’s cardiac intensive care unit. The doctor denied the allegations during the trial and disputed the amount of drugs claime…