Wrongful death claim filed against Oklahoma City surgeon

 

Published: February 13, 2009

TULSA (AP) — A wrongful death complaint has been filed against an Oklahoma City surgeon who made international headlines after performing a risky operation in 2006 that left a young Russian boy brain dead.

Attorneys for the boy's father, Sabit Kurbanov, filed the complaint Tuesday against Paul Christopher Francel in Oklahoma County District Court, records show. It asserts that the care 16-year-old David Kurba...


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