An important position at the University Hospital in Graz is to be filled in the autumn. Among the final eight candidates is a controversial surgeon who had legal troubles in Vienna three years ago due to inconsistencies in operations. The application caused a stir in the run-up to the session on the professorship.
The Graz University Clinic is looking for a new Chief of General Surgery. As the Ö1-Journal reported Monday, there is an explosive application for this senior position: a prominent surgeon accused three years ago of falsifying more than 100 surgical protocols at Vienna General Hospital. He would be registered as a surgeon, but not perform the operations himself or even be present in the operating room.
charging and diversion
At the time, a complaint was filed in a Vienna District Court, which was settled by diversion. “As a result, he had to hand over the responsibility. This is, of course, very well phrased by his lawyers, but in reality it means: he has cheated my clients. About the fact that he would operate on her and then that he operated on her,” explains lawyer Timo Gerersdorfer, who at the time represented four injured women in court at the request of “Krone”.
During the diversion, the surgeon had to pay a fine of 13,000 euros and reimburse the private costs that the women had paid to the doctor. “But he never personally apologized to my customers,” Gerersdorfer said. The case was legally closed and the surgeon involved is therefore innocent.
The Medical University of Vienna agreed with him at the time that he could accept a research professorship at the AKH, but that he would no longer come into contact with patients. In Graz, however, the surgeon also has to return to the operating table.
In Graz among the last eight candidates
At the LKH Univ. Clinic Hans-Jörg Mischinger will retire on October 1. As a result, general and transplant surgery are merged into a new department. A new director is being sought for this and the surgeon is one of the last eight candidates.
There are no legal issues with the application and nothing would stand in the way of an order. The moral component is currently ignored in the teaching hospital: “This should not be a criterion at this stage of the nomination process, otherwise all other qualities would be left behind. But there is no doubt that you have to look at this very carefully and evaluate it when making the final selection,” emphasizes Rector Hellmut Samonigg.
Source: Krone
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