{"id":68793,"date":"2016-11-06T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68793"},"modified":"2016-11-06T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:11:30","slug":"christopher-owens-surgeon-at-vets-center-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68793","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Owens; surgeon at vets center jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=68795\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68795\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/owens_christopher_144px.jpg\" alt=\"owens_christopher_144px\" width=\"144\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68795\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Owens, a surgeon affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco and the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs has been arrested by UCSF police for prescribing and selling opioids to his patients according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/crime\/article\/UCSF-surgeon-at-vets-center-jailed-on-99-10594833.php?cmpid=email-desktop\">SFGate<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday, Owens was in jail in San Francisco after being booked on suspicion of charges including the illegal sale or transfer of narcotics. His bail was set at $1.98 million. Details of the specific accusations against him were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, UCSF said its police force had been working with the San Francisco district attorney\u2019s office in connection with the investigation. City prosecutors have not filed formal charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUCSF takes this incident very seriously,\u201d a statement from university officials said, \u201cand urges its entire clinical staff, including physicians, nurses and other care providers, to be alert for signs of opioid misuse by any member of the clinical team and to report any such suspicions confidentially.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/215652773-story\">KTVU<\/a>, his girlfriend also turned up dead;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just two days before that, Owen&#8217;s girlfriend 35 year old Danielle Pattillo turned up dead in the Sutro Heights home that the two shared together.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The University has scrubbed their website of his biographical information, but SFGate got to it first;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Owens\u2019 profile on the university website said he is a 1998 graduate of Indiana University\u2019s school of medicine and listed nine research grants and 70 published studies under his name. Another site listed him as a specialist in vascular surgery, aneurysms, deep vein thrombosis and diseases of the carotid artery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess there wasn&#8217;t enough money in vascular surgery. SFGate also says that overdoses of opioids killed more than 28,000 people in 2014. 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