San Francisco transplant surgeon Dr. Hootan Roozrokh was criminally charged on Monday with "dependent adult abuse." He's accused of prescribing way, way too man drugs to speed up the death of a developmentally-disabled man. Why? So he could harvest his organs. (Ew.) You can read SFGate's breakdown here or the LA Times' story here.
It seems Roozrokh "is believed to be the first doctor in California ever accused of criminal charges in connection with procuring organs," which some fear could stave off organ donations, people slapping the donor sticker on the back of their driver's licenses, etcetera. Yikes.
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