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  • First Trial against an American Surgeon for Killing a Patient to Harvest Organs Begins

    11/06/2008 4:07:31 PM PST · by wagglebee · 35 replies · 1,284+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 11/6/08 | Jonquil Frankham
    CALIFORNIA, November 6, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A San Francisco surgeon is undergoing trial for allegedly hastening the death of a terminally ill patient to harvest his vital organs. The case against Hootan Roozrokh is believed to be the first of its kind brought against an American transplant surgeon.Rosa Navarro, the patient’s mother, successfully filed suit against the hospital where the patient died and received $250,000 in compensation. Now the District Attorney’s office is pressing charges against the 34-year-old surgeon for “dependent adult abuse, administering a harmful substance and prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose.”Roozrokh is also being charged...
  • Surgeon ‘hastened man’s death’ to harvest his kidneys for transplant (California)

    08/01/2007 8:32:27 AM PDT · by Bladerunnuh · 46 replies · 1,279+ views
    Times Online UK ^ | 8-01-07 | Jacqui Goddard
    A doctor has been charged with deliberately hastening the death of a disabled man so that he could harvest his kidneys for another patient, in the first case of its kind in America. The case centres on allegations that Hootan Roozrokh, a transplant surgeon in California, ordered a nurse to administer lethal doses of narcotic painkillers and sedatives to Ruben Navarro, who was terminally ill, after taking him off life support. The man died hours later. Prosecutors claim that Dr Roozrokh, 33, acted without a legitimate medical purpose in his handling of Mr Navarro, 25, who suffered from a neurological...
  • Transplant surgeon, allegedly seeking organs, is charged with trying to hasten patient's death

    07/30/2007 6:12:33 PM PDT · by Coleus · 27 replies · 913+ views
    LA Times ^ | 07.30.07 | Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber
    A San Francisco transplant surgeon was criminally charged today with allegedly attempting to hasten the death last year of a 26-year-old disabled man on life support in order to harvest his organs more quickly. The charges are the first in the nation against a physician for his role in a transplant and are sure to raise further uneasiness about a somewhat controversial practice in which organs are retrieved before a patient is brain-dead. The San Luis Obispo County district attorney's office accused Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, of dependent adult abuse, administering a harmful substance and prescribing an unlawful controlled substance...