Christopher Owens; surgeon at vets center jailed
Christopher Owens, a surgeon affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs has been arrested by UCSF police for prescribing and selling opioids to his patients according to SFGate;
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.
In a statement, UCSF said its police force had been working with the San Francisco district attorney’s office in connection with the investigation. City prosecutors have not filed formal charges.
“UCSF takes this incident very seriously,” a statement from university officials said, “and 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.”
According to KTVU, his girlfriend also turned up dead;
Just two days before that, Owen’s girlfriend 35 year old Danielle Pattillo turned up dead in the Sutro Heights home that the two shared together.
The University has scrubbed their website of his biographical information, but SFGate got to it first;
Owens’ profile on the university website said he is a 1998 graduate of Indiana University’s 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.
I guess there wasn’t enough money in vascular surgery. SFGate also says that overdoses of opioids killed more than 28,000 people in 2014. Maybe there should be laws to control that stuff.
Category: Crime
Hope he enjoys jail… Bubba, Thor, Julio and Mr. “Tiny” will love to see him!
Took a shit all over the medical profession when he made the decision to be a drug dealer.
Cocksucker.
Hippocratic Oath? Not so much for this M-F’er. Running a pill mill preying on people’s addictions; hope he gets whatever the max is in California.
About a week, if Governor Moonbeam has his way.
Whatta jerk. I guess nothing matters but money, right? He did (not does) deep vascular surgery? Scumbag.
Maybe somebody will do some unanesthetized experiments on the good doctor’s carotid in jail. With a dirty shank.
Nothing but a drug pusher all dressed up.
Impressive bail….maybe the dead girlfriend
Way to go, DOCTOR!! I’m sure that Bubba & Thor are gonna do some good probing on him soon. What now, are we gonna hear calls for more drug control laws?
There is more to this story I suspect. I practiced vascular surgery for 26 yrs in both military and civilian world. It pays well as long as you work hard and commit 24/7 professionally. The patients are the sickest you’ll see, and that’s BEFORE you operate on them. With the dead girlfriend and the fact this sleazebag was moving Schedule 2 narcs around suggests to me that his life has likely nose dived, his surgical skills have suffered, he is in debt and likely a substance abuser himself. I have served on several “Impaired Physician” committees boards and it usually is packaged like that. Rarely one issue seen. CAPT Bones (USN ret)
He should demand a speedy trial so that he gets convicted before 20Jan2017. Then he would stand a decent chance of being pardoned like the hundreds (or thousands) obama cut loose, because slinging dope is not a violent crime.
Shithead
If he was in Virginia he would ahve wanted to already have been convicted… McAuliffe used an automatic pen machine to make it look like he personally vetted the letters for SIXTY THOUSAND FELONS just in time for them to vote for Hillary.
Wouldn’t it be fun if it turned out Virginia went for Trump by 60,000 votes…
No surprise he was affiliated with the VA. Lots of stories about staff and patients using, selling, stealing abusing opiods.
They changed the classification of several opiods last year making it harder to get and limiting prescriptions.
Its one of the things that’s contributed to the rise of heroin usage.
Kermit Gosnell, the monster that was put away for life plus 30 years for doing live birth abortions was originally put on the radar screen for filling out hundreds of fake prescriptions for opiods.
He’s sure to be nominated as Surgeon General under Hillary.
another reason to legalize medical marijuana nationwide!
Great. Brilliant. Right on! Groovy. Stoner.
I know him well, and he has been doing this since he practiced in Boston. He cares about no one but himself.