Extortion: Former physician must answer for himself before court

A above neurosurgeon and its authoritative bang-up were accused of collective extortion. Between 2004 and 2005 are the two added costs of some patients of the commune hospital Bühl accepted habten, in adjustment to achieve operations. Both abjure the act. The judgement is to abatement in the average of Decembers.

Baden-Baden - a above physician of the commune hospital Bühl and the ex authoritative bang-up of the hospital accept to acknowledgment for themselves for Monday because of collective extortion afore the bounded cloister Baden-Baden. The 68-jährige neurosurgeon is to accept adapted 2004 and 2005 beneath advertence to allegedly decidedly big-ticket implants donations at a amount of 3000 to 5000 euros of patients with aching analgesic cavalcade illnesses. Added case one is to accept placed than Konsiliararzt the alive medical profession after operation dates in anticipation or the patients to added hospitals accept referred. The accepted donations were paid in at atomic eight cases to the commune hospital.

The neurosurgeon denied the abuse of the extortion. Its action was “completely normally”, said the German Iranian. Such donations to a hospital with decidedly big-ticket operations are “common” in the USA, area it formed a time long. It capital to advice the hospital financially which is at burden in this way in Bühl.

Administrative arch is to accept accepted everything

“It did not have, said moral affliction of conscience” the physician, who implemented about 350 operations according to own abstracts for the 70's in the year. The adjudicator asked it whether a coercion did not lie in it that he is to accept said patients, her could alone in three years is operated, if they did not pay the donation. Whereupon the accused said: “That was not a compulsion. All 20 kilometers there are someone, agnate operations makes nevertheless.” The patients could accept gone aswell into addition hospital. The accused - a aforetime beholden specialist for analgesic cavalcade illnesses - is today no added than physician actively.

From appearance of the accessible prosecutor's appointment extortion is present, because the costs of the all-important implants would accept been taken off by the bead agglomeration sums of the acknowledged and clandestine bloom insurances in anniversary case. The prosecutors accept the 39-jährige above authoritative chief, which had active the adapted donation receipts, into which amiss convenance was inaugurated.

Account artifice in nine cases accused

The accused physician said, it had fabricated the angle crave such donations. The ex authoritative bang-up contradicted that vehemently: It gave, fatigued “no appeal meinerseits to a advertisement of the donations” it. It gave “no arrange and no act plan”. When it accomplished from complaints of patients because of the donations, it forbade to the physician to alarm added donations in because this no acceptable ablaze throws on the hospital.

It is actual that it active the donation receipts. “I about consistently proceeded from agreeable and affluent patients, who capital to do”, said the 39-Jährige to the hospital of something property.

The accessible prosecutor's appointment accuses to that neurosurgeons besides in nine cases annual artifice and - in affiliation with three declared analysis errors - behindhand actual injury. For the action six canicule of the audition are set. 21 assemblage and two experts are to be heard. The judgement is accepted on 9 December. With extortion abuse up to 5 year detention.