Don't try to sell your leg, it's not worth much.

(CNN) An Austrian court has fined a surgeon 2,700 euros ($3,050) for mistakenly amputating the wrong leg of a patient.

 

The 43-year-old surgeon was fined at the Linz Regional Court on Wednesday, with half of the amount suspended, "for committing grossly negligent bodily harm," Walter Eichinger, the court's vice president, told CNN.

 

On May 18 the surgeon, who was working at a clinic in Freistadt, "carried out an inadequate clarification with the existing medical records and the photo documentation before the operation for the planned amputation of the left thigh and thus marked the right leg for the surgical intervention," said Eichinger on Thursday.

        

The right thigh was then "amputated without any medical indication," added Eichinger.

 

The court awarded $5,666 in damages to the widow of the patient, who died before the court date, for reasons unrelated to the amputation.

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• I could‘t believe it as the fine is too little. -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/02/2021 postreply 11:17:27

• a kidney worth an iphone? -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/02/2021 postreply 11:41:46

• 城頭看到這條新聞，也失去一條腿，獲賠1000萬 -妖妖靈- ♀ (178 bytes) () 12/02/2021 postreply 12:11:41

• If you want to sell a leg, sell in USA -心存善念- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/02/2021 postreply 13:16:00

• 善念好-_:_-; -青鬆站- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/02/2021 postreply 18:07:23

• 鬆鬆好 -心存善念- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/02/2021 postreply 18:28:57

• 讀完很無語！最後一句，直接懵了！ -天山晨- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/02/2021 postreply 18:10:17