New AOK study: Who is to blame for the incorrect care of patients

Small hospitals (still!) too often dare to try therapies for which they are neither technically equipped nor qualified in terms of personnel. To make money. A rant.

You have to be careful with terms like “negligent homicide” or “intentional bodily harm”. But if women with breast cancer were diagnosed, operated on and treated in small country hospitals where doctors had little experience with such highly complex therapies, then nothing else would come to mind. Or if other doctors admitted patients with acute heart attacks as inpatients, knowing full well that they would be better off in a larger facility with a heart catheter laboratory.

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