The Medical Board of California has expanded its list of accusations against an Anaheim Hills doctor to include homicide in the death of an abortion patient last summer.....
After an autopsy, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office listed the death as accidental. But on June 21, 2010, the chief medical examiner reclassified the death as a homicide. Rutland responded by sending a letter to a long list of people, including the U.S. Attorney General, California's two senators, various U.S. House members and even Oprah Winfrey, claiming that he's being persecuted because he's an abortion provider....
According to the board's current complaint, Ying Chen was 16 to 16 ½ weeks pregnant when she went to Rutland's San Gabriel office seeking an abortion on July 28, 2009. Rutland later told the board he gave the patient a diluted lidocaine solution as an anesthetic. Shortly afterward, the patient began having a reaction. Rutland and two other doctors at the office, one of them an acupuncturist, began performing CPR on the victim. Paramedics arrived and found Chen in full cardiac arrest. She was taken to a hospital, where she died six days later.
The board determined that a "significant delay" had passed between Chen's adverse reaction and the 911 call. It also said Rutland had "failed to recognize lidocaine toxicity," didn't begin resuscitative measures quickly enough, and that the facility was inadequately equipped to deal with an emergency.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Homicide added to the list of list of complaints against abortionist Andrew Rutland
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