In 2 years in prison, with a 3 -year suspension, a private hospital physician was sentenced to death by a 17 -year -old patient in December 2019 in Thessaloniki.
Was found guilty of the Three -Member Criminal Court of Thessaloniki for homicide by negligencewith the recognition of the mitigating, while by the same decision he was acquitted by his colleague by the same hospital, specializing in orthopedic.
The indictment attributed criminal liability to doctors and in particular that they did not diagnose the patient the Staphylococcal Syndromeresulting in a valuable time to waste proper treatment and treatment of the infection. As a result of them, according to the case file, the his death in a public hospitalwhere he was taken.
The young man who was footballerhad been admitted to the private hospital with Clinical picture of aberrants, inability to gait; fever with chill, vomiting – diarrhea, sophisticated episodeas stated in the indictment. Doctors are accused of not performing any imaging (x -ray, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging), no repetitive testing to monitor laboratory findings, and despite strong symptomatology made no differential diagnosis.
In his apology, the physician denied the accusation, stressing, among other things, that he had explicitly recommended the import of the patient in clinic of private hospitalbut he met his mother’s refusal and was given by the clinical form of refusal of treatment.
Source: Skai
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