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Surgeon “hastened death” for kidney transplant |
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“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 Times reported on 1 Aug 07.
“The case centres on allegations that Hootan Roozrokh, a transplant surgeon in California, ordered a nurse to adminster 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”.
In Britain, the Chief Medical Officer wants everyone to be treated as an organ donor “after death” unless they explicitly opt out of the scheme (Sunday Times, 15 July 07).
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