Modern Healthcare - Charges of a different kind; Providers say overzealous prosecutors are wrongly trying to transform poor medical judgment into criminal intent.
Byline: Gregg Blesch
Bay Area transplant surgeon Hootan Roozrokh faces eight years in prison for allegedly trying to make a prospective organ donor die faster.
Roozrokh was booked days after a grand jury in New Orleans declined to indict physician Anna Pou for alleged mercy killings following Hurricane Katrina, ending a more than yearlong saga for Pou and two nurses arrested with her.
And it was just over a year ago that Wisconsin nurse Julie Thao made a fatal error that would land her in a criminal courtroom.
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