{"id":1698,"date":"2008-02-29T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/doctor_charged_criminally\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:08:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:08:43","slug":"doctor-charged-criminally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/doctor-charged-criminally\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Charged Criminally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, a disabled and brain damaged man, near death,  was taken into an operating room at a California hospital in order to harvest his organs for donation. Law enforcement officials contend that what occurred in the operating room was a criminal act. The surgeon, Dr. Hootan Roozrokh has been criminally charged with prescribing excessive and improper doses of drugs, apparently in an attempt to hasten Mr. Navarro\u2019s death to retrieve his organs sooner. The doctor is facing three felony counts relating to his actions<\/p>\n<p>Central to the case is whether Dr. Roozrokh was pursuing organs at any cost or had become entangled in a web of misunderstanding about a lesser-used harvesting technique known as donation after cardiac death. Dr. Roozrokh has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Transplanting organs from patients whose hearts have stopped, or cardiac-death donations, began to go out of vogue in the late 1960s and early \u201970s after medical advances like life support and subsequent changes in the legal definition of death made donations from those declared brain dead more efficient. But health officials have encouraged cardiac-death donations in recent years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/doctor-charged-criminally\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Doctor Charged Criminally\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, a disabled and brain damaged man, near death, was taken into an operating room at a California hospital in order to harvest his organs for donation. Law enforcement officials contend that what occurred in the operating room was a criminal act. 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