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Germany jails doctor who jabbed patients to boost fees
Jul 25, 2008, 16:06 GMT
Mannheim, Germany - A doctor who injected vaccine into large numbers of patients so he could collect insurance payouts was sent to jail for 30 months on Friday on 46 counts of assault.
'This was business-scale jabbing,' said judge Matthias Schwab. Many additional charges had had to be dropped because the evidence did not meet full legal standards of proof. The doctor, 59, had taken no interest in patients' health, only in the money.
At a retrial in the German city of Mannheim, the court heard that patients did not know they were being vaccinated and were never asked in advance if they might be allergic to the vaccines.
They were just instructed to roll up their sleeves and accept an injection 'to feel better.'
The doctor then collected payments from their insurance funds.
A previous trial on the same charges had ended with a sentence of 39 months, but was overturned on a legal technicality.
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