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On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:27:07 -0600, Notan
<notan@ddressthatcanbespammed> wrote:

>Alan Smithee wrote:
>> Surgeon accused of trying to 'harvest organs'
>> 
>> Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
>> Wednesday August 1, 2007
>> The Guardian 
>> 
>> A California transplant surgeon has been accused of hastening the
>> death of a severely disabled patient in order to harvest his organs.
>> If found guilty, Hootan Roozrokh faces up to eight years in prison.
>> Dr Roozrokh was part of a team preparing to operate on Ruben Navarro,
>> 25, who had been on a life support machine and was found to be
>> unresponsive. The patient's family had agreed to donate his organs.
>> 
>> In the operating room at the Sierra Vista medical centre in San Luis
>> Obispo county, 180 miles north of Los Angeles, Dr Roozrokh, 33,
>> ordered a total of 200mg of morphine and 80mg of the sedative Ativan
>> for the patient, far above normal doses. He also administered the
>> antiseptic Betadine through a tube into Navarro's stomach, a
>> sterilisation procedure normally done after death. But Navarro
>> survived for more than seven hours after being removed from life
>> support and given the drugs. The time limit for organs to remain
>> viable after life support has been withdrawn is 30 minutes.
>> 
>> Navarro was returned to intensive care, where he died the next
>> morning.
>> "The law and the facts indicated that Dr Roozrokh ... tried to
>> accelerate [Navarro's] death to facilitate the harvesting of his
>> organs," said chief deputy district attorney Stephen Brown.
>> 
>> Prosecutors said they were not pursuing murder charges because they
>> did not believe the drugs caused Navarro's death. Under Californian
>> law, transplant surgeons are forbidden from being involved in the
>> treatment of potential organ donors before they are dead. "The lines
>> weren't just blurred; [Dr Roozrokh] took over," Mr Brown said.
>> "Central to this case is the mistreatment of a disabled patient."
>> 
>> Gerald Schwartzbach, Dr Roozrokh's lawyer, called the charges
>> "unfounded and ill-advised", and said his client "has unfairly been
>> the subject of an 18-month witch-hunt".
>> 
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2138938,00.html
>
>Not only did this unfortunate incident happen over 1 year ago (February 2006),
>the appropriate action was taken against all offending physicians and staff
>involved.
>
>Nothing like dredging up old news, huh?

Uh, it was on the news today.  The article is dated today.  Although
the incident may have happened a while ago, nice to know that in over
a year mulling it over, zero thoughts have crossed your mind in that
time.  Are you a Republican?


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