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Renal Retail

Documented: London doctor struck off for inveigling Turkish peasants to donate a kidney.

"On April 5, 1990, after a 35-day hearing, the General Medical Council found a physician and two surgeons guilty of serious professional misconduct. Dr. Raymond Crockett, a physician in private practice in London's Harley Street and at the National Kidney Centre, was struck off the medical Register, and Mr. Michael Bewick and Mr. Michael Joyce had restrictions placed on their practice following their involvement in a kidney-for-sale scandal. The case concerned transplant operations with kidneys removed from Turkish donors, unrelated to the recipients, who had been brought to London and paid for their organs. ... "

References:

• http://tafkac.org/medical/organ.theft/raymond.crockett/