Malpractice trial

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After the misdiagnosis, the Carinthian's testicles had to be removed - with dramatic consequences for his entire life.

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Two years ago, on St. Nicholas Day of all days, a Carinthian boy woke up with unbearable pain in his lower abdomen. The parents rushed the child to hospital. But the doctors quickly sent the family away again. Two days later, the patient was rescued in another hospital - with dramatic consequences.

Sudden pulling in the lower abdomen, nausea, vomiting, severe pain - hospital doctors quickly diagnosed a Carinthian schoolboy with simple gastroenteritis, a common inflammation of the mucous membranes in the stomach and intestines. A fatal misdiagnosis, as it turned out. The botched treatment had far-reaching consequences for the boy's entire life. The justice system agrees.