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DETROIT, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Assisted-suicide Dr. Jack Kevorkian has been furloughed from Michigan's Thumb Correctional Facility to undergo bilateral hernia surgery.
Attorney Mayer Morganroth said Kevorkian was given 10 minutes notice early Thursday that he would be leaving his cell and would undergo surgery Friday.
Morganroth said Kevorkian, who is serving a 10-to-25-year sentence for second-degree murder in the videotaped poisoning death of Thomas Youk in 1998, is in poor health. Youk had Lou Gehrig's disease.
Kevorkian reportedly suffers from hepatitis C, high blood pressure, arthritis, beginning stages of cataracts, circulatory problems and a heart murmur.
"I'm really concerned. His health is quite poor," Morganroth told the Detroit Free Press. "They've (the Michigan Department of Corrections) known he needed the surgery for quite a while."
Kevorkian was moved to the Foote Hospital in Jackson, Mich., under 24-hour guard. The former pathologist once called "Dr. Death" says he participated more than 100 assisted suicides.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has rejected parole or commutation of Kevorkian's sentence on grounds of poor health.
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