Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 34, a doctor from San Luis Obispo, California, is accused of giving a patient too much drugs. Ruben Navarro, 25, was suffering from delilitating nerve disease. When hearing word that Navarro was a donor, Dr. Roozrokh hurried with a transplant team to him, when he was taken off life support. Dr. Roozrokh gave him morphine which he should not have had. He was accused of "dependent adult abuse" and issuing a drug called Betadine in his feeding tube. According to the article Doctor accused of hastening death for patient's organs, "The standard of practice is for the transplant surgeon to be outside the operating room until death has been declared," said Thomas Mone, president of the Association of Organ Procurement Organization. "The unfortunate error in this case was the transplant surgeon being in the room and that's highly, highly unusual." If he is accused he can serve up to eight years. I believe this is a very serious issue. Everybody needs health care and if we can not trust our doctors that is a big concern. He should serve those eight years if he is quilty. No family needs to go through a situation like this because of a doctors "mistakes".
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/03/transplant.trial/index.html
Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ruben+Navarro&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.mahalo.com/Ruben_Navarro
Monday, 3 March 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment