Yesterday, a Dubai court convicted Dr. Eugen
Adelsmayr of premeditated murder and sentenced him to life in prison after he
gave orders to switch off a patient's life support. Prosecutors had originally sought a death sentence for the physician. (News24) (The National)
Adelsmayr, chief medic at the Rashid government
hospital intensive care unit, "allowed a quadriplegic patient, Ghulam
Mohammed, to die after (he) shut down his life support system." The court said that Adelsmayr
had "issued DNR (Do Not Resuscitate)" orders to the staff and then
"supervised" its implementation.
There have not been many analogous criminal convictions of physicians in the United States. One of the more notorious ones was that of Stan Naramore.
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