The mistake was discovered two days later, during a routine bandage change.
The 43-year-old doctor was sued and a court in Linz found her guilty of gross negligence. She is now fined €2,700The patient died before the case came to court. His widow has been awarded €5,000, about $5,651, in damages.
a German-language newspaper based in Austria. She did not know how she could've marked the wrong leg. CBS News has reached out to OÖG and the clinic and is awaiting response. CBS News has also reached out to the regional court in Linz for more information and is awaiting response. Mistakes like this are extremely rare, but some similar incidents have occurred. In 1995, a doctor in the U.S. realized halfway through surgery he was amputating the wrong leg of a diabetic patient, according to the
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