Indictment in Carinthia

Drunk emergency doctor hits esophagus: patient dead

The public prosecutor's office in Klagenfurt has made serious accusations against a young doctor: the doctor is said to have started work while heavily intoxicated - and failed to react properly when an emergency arose. The patient did not survive the alcohol treatment. Now the doctor has to stand trial.

Dramatic scenes unfolded in an ambulance in Carinthia: A patient is fighting for his life on the way to hospital, the doctor on board is supposed to help him - instead everything goes wrong.