'Surgeon hastened death of disabled man to harvest organs for another patient' - Daily Mail 27th February 2008

Thursday, February 28, 2008

A surgeon went before a court in the US today accused of hastening the death of a disabled man so another patient could have his liver and kidneys. In the first prosecution of its kind, Dr Hootan Roozrokh, 34, faces up to eight years in prison after allegedly ordering a nurse to inject 25-year-old Ruben Navarro, who was in a coma and considered terminally ill, with a lethal drug dose to speed his demise after his life support was removed.

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