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Doctor Charged With Hastening Patient’s Death
August 08, 2007 at 12:57 PM
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According to the San Luis Obispo County district attorney, this is the first such criminal case against a transplant doctor in the United States.
Prosecutors say that Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, a 33-year-old Iranian-born U.S. citizen, gave a harmful drug and prescribed excessive doses of morphine and a sedative to 26-year-old Ruben Navarro.
Navarro was taken in a coma to Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, near Los Angeles, in 2006 after suffering respiratory and cardiac arrest. Although Navarro was found to have irreversible brain damage and was kept on a respirator, he was not considered brain dead because he still had limited brain function.
The day before Navarro died, his family gave approval for a surgical team to recover his organs for donation, though the procedure never occurred because Navarro did not die within 30 minutes of being removed from life support. He died the next day.
At that time, Roozrokh, a surgeon at Kaiser Permanente’s now-closed kidney transplant program, was working on behalf of a group that procures and distributes organs. According to prosecutors, drugs were prescribed “to accelerate Mr. Navarro’s death in order to recover his organs.”
According to state laws, transplant surgeons are not allowed to be involved in the treatment of potential organ donors before they are declared dead.
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