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The doctor is threatened by the consequences of the service, criminal and professional law. Internal investigations would have “raised suspicions of breach of duty,” which made dismissal “inevitable,” KUK medical director Ferdinand Waldenberger said in a press release. He also turned over all the documents to the prosecution for “a legal evaluation.” There is suspicion of negligent murder with a sentence of up to one year in prison or even grossly negligent murder (up to three years). There may also be consequences of the medical association, keyword professional ban, according to the medical director.
On Tuesday, a 77-year-old patient entered the KUK with the rescue helicopter due to an aortic rupture and underwent surgery. The lead doctor who led the operation is said to have given the surgery to a physician assistant during a still critical phase of the operation in order to enter his private practice. After difficulties in the operation, the man died of a heart attack in the posterior wall that he had suffered during the procedure, according to an autopsy.
The city of Linz announced Monday that the city’s health oversight would also verify the doctor’s case. Mayor Klaus Luger (SP) also focuses on the issue of the private practice of hospital doctors. Patient advocates spokesman Gerald Bachinger also criticized the informal handling of private ordinances by hospital doctors: calling it “ZiB2” on Sunday as a “dead end in a public health system based in solidarity, “if one” is his obligation, what is one for one has separated certain patients and leaves the hospital to continue working in the private sphere “.
You can read more about this in the ON interview with Ferdinand Waldenberger.
