A doctor who faced several years in jail for mistakenly removing a womans healthy leg got away with just a fine yesterday (Mon).Suspended surgeon Raimund V., 61, was sentenced to pay a fine of 10,000 Euros and 5,000 Euros to the victim, a 91-year-old pensioner. His colleague Klaus B., 40, was fined 7,200 Euros for […]
Hundreds of Czech doctors may seek work in neighbouring Austria over a heated row about low salaries.The Czech doctors union announced in an open letter to the government published today (Tues) that 4,000 doctors one of out four of physicians working at hospitals in the country would quit if politician decision-makers failed to […]
Surgeons at a Carinthian clinic managed to sew a mans testicles back on yesterday (Sun).Doctors working at the Klinikum Klagenfurt said today they expected the 49-year-old to make a full recovery following the six-hour operation. They stressed that such surgery carries very high risks and is therefore rarely carried out.The Carinthian man sliced off his […]
Surgeons removed a cancer sufferers healthy kidney, it has emerged.Klinikum Klagenfurt officials admitted today (Thurs) that doctors removed the wrong organ when they were meant to take out the affected kidney in surgery earlier this week.Authorities claimed the mix-up did not occur due to overburdened staff doing too much overtime. They added a pathologist informed […]
A 48-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was shot by another hunter during a hare hunt in Upper Austria on Saturday.The hunter from Mistelbach in Lower Austria was hospitalised in Linz after the incident at the hunting outing near Vorderweißenbach in Upper Austrias Urfahr-Umgebung district.He underwent emergency surgery on the same day […]
A Carinthian woman has given birth to monovular triplets, it has emerged.Doctors at the Klinikum Klagenfurt hospital said today (Weds) the overjoyed mum and her girls were doing fine after last Fridays birth. They stressed that the chances of give birth to single egg triplets was one in 200 million.A spokesman for the clinic said […]
A Styrian woman who infected her baby with HIV has been given a ten-month suspended jail sentence.Judges heard yesterday (Tues) how Barbara Seebald from Frauental kept doctors from carrying out a caesarean when she gave birth to Muriel last year despite suffering from the disease.The 41-year-old contracted the virus around 20 years ago but said […]
Bungling doctors performing delicate surgery to remove a womans leg first amputated the wrong one and then, realising their mistake, amputated the other, it has been revealed today (Fri).The 90-year-old woman had been rushed to St. Johann hospital in Tyrol after suffering from a serious vascular dysfunction. But after carrying out surgery to remove the […]
A Romanian gang leader suspected of setting a prostitute on fire in Vienna has been arrested in the Netherlands, according to newspapers.Viennese dailies report today (Weds) that Adrian Bogdan Negrei was caught in the city of Amsterdam while potential accomplices were still being sought. Police have not yet commented on the claims.A Europe-wide hunt for […]
Sixty-two per cent of Austrians support euthanasia by doctors for patients who request it, the results of a new poll commissioned by Graz Medical University released today (Weds) show.The percentage is 13 percentage points higher than in 2000, it said.In the poll, 66 per cent of men and 58.5 per cent of women said they […]