Medical error : a surgeon suspended after the death of a teenager

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Published the 06.10.2017 at 16h26

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The facts date back to the September 21, 2008. After a fall bike ride, Maxime Walter, a teenager strasbourg, 15 years old, suffered from internal bleeding and a ruptured spleen, which had to be removed. But the surgeon in charge of Maxime has delayed too long. Dr. Raphael Moog, today 49 years old, has decided to operate 24 hours after the accident. The teen did not survive.

An expectation that the College of physicians condemns. Considering that the surgeon had ” deprived him of any chance of survival “, it sentenced him to 3 years of prohibition to exercise, two of which are suspended. For a year, so it will be suspended from all medical activity.

Double conviction

The house disciplinary of first instance of the regional Council of Burgundy, the Order of doctors, which has processed the file, is not tender with Dr. Moog. It stresses its ” incompetence “. She accuses him of his absence from the patient, thus preventing it to have ” all the means to take the treatment decision fit “.

In 2015, he had already been judged a criminal. The correctional court of Strasbourg had sentenced him for involuntary manslaughter. He had then been punished with a sentence of one year suspended prison sentence. A sentence increased on appeal, to fifteen months, always with relief.