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Sacked senior civil servants pull high salaries: report

Business & Money: 25 Sep 11
Seven senior civl servants who left their positions prematurely now continue to pocket monthly salaries of between 65,000 and 123,000 kronor ($9,500-18,000), despite having unclear or non-existent tasks, according to reports in the Swedish media. READ »

'Doctors can recommend homeopathy': court

Science & Technology: 24 Sep 11
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court is opening for doctors to recommend homeopathic cures for patients, sparking criticism from the Swedish Medical Association. READ »

Doc accused of snapping pics of naked patients

Society: 9 Sep 11
A Swedish woman who had just had a rectal examination was surprised when her doctor whipped out his mobile phone and showed her pictures he had taken of other patients in various states of undress. READ »

Contraceptive coil miss causes 25 years of pain

National: 13 Jul 11
Chronic pain, bleeding and a miscarriage – these were all ailments that befell a woman from the north of Sweden, caused by a forgotten contraceptive coil lodged in her body for a quarter of a century. READ »

Court strips licence of sex offender doc

Society: 18 Mar 11
A Swedish appeals court has revoked the licence of a Stockholm-area doctor who has previously been convicted of child sex offences and has admitted to substance abuse problems. READ »

Sweden 'swamped' by malpractice complaints

Science & Technology: 7 Mar 11
Swedish health authorities haven't dealt with a single malpractice case since taking over responsibility for managing patient complaints at the start of the year. READ »

Alcoholic doc allowed to keep practicing

Society: 5 Mar 11
Sweden's top medical ethics body has ruled that a Stockholm-area doctor's alcohol problems are no reason to strip him of his licence to practice medicine. READ »

Gothenburg man arrested for Oslo Islamist attack

National: 15 Jan 11
Swedish police have arrested a Gothenburg man as a suspect in the attempted murder of the founder of a radical Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group in Oslo, authorities announced on Friday. READ »

Doc convicted of rape may lose licence

Society: 7 Jan 11
A Stockholm-area doctor who was sentenced to two years in prison for raping a patient during "touch therapy" sessions risks having his licence revoked. READ »

Swedish medical errors prove ever more costly

Business & Money: 4 Jan 11
The cost of paying for harm done to patients in the Swedish healthcare system has nearly doubled in the last decade, according to a new report. READ »

Woman left with longer leg after failed hip op

Science & Technology: 11 Aug 10
A Swedish woman has reported two doctors for bit having told her that her hip operation was unsuccessful and left her to find out for herself that her walking problems were caused by having one leg "much longer" than the other. READ »

98-year-old reports doc over early death cert

National: 6 Jul 10
A 98-year-old woman in Trollhättan in western Sweden has reported a doctor for issuing her a death certificate despite the fact that she remains very much alive. READ »

Swedish man gets penis extension, not added girth

Science & Technology: 5 Jun 10
A man who paid 30,000 kronor ($3,730) to get added girth to his penis has reported a Malmö plastic surgeon to the Swedish medical board for deciding instead to do something about the length. READ »

Mum endures c-section without anaesthetic

National: 10 Feb 10
A woman has reported Lund University Hospital to the medical board after being subjected to a caesarian section without the benefit of an anaesthetic. READ »

Children's hospital faces probe over baby death

National: 22 Jan 10
Parents of an 18-month-old girl who died after being admitted to the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital with pneumonia say a shortfall in the quality of care led to their child's death. READ »

Dodgy dentist repaired same tooth 71 times

Society: 30 Dec 09
A dentist from Gothenburg in western Sweden has been reported for malpractice by a patient who claims he had the same teeth repaired dozens of times. READ »

Shock therapy on the rise in Sweden: report

Society: 18 Nov 09
Swedish hospitals are increasingly turning to electroshock therapy to treat depression, but have failed to adequately warn patients about the risk for memory loss associated with the treatment, a new investigation reveals. READ »

Unborn child 'nearly killed' due to doc's error

Society: 14 Sep 09
A 24-year old mother-to-be from Stockholm nearly aborted her own child after a doctor wrongly diagnosed her as having had a delayed miscarriage. READ »

Swedish doctor found drunk on the job

Science & Technology: 1 Sep 09
Swedish health authorities have recommended that a doctor from a clinic in Umeå in northern Sweden be placed on probation for three years after he was caught under the heavy influence of alcohol at work. READ »

Swedish surgeon warned after removing wrong organ

Science & Technology: 26 Aug 09
A pregnant woman went to the doctor complaining of stomach pains. The doctor suspected appendicitis and decided to operate, but instead of removing the offending organ the surgeon removed her ovary. READ »

Doctors miss fist-sized brain tumour

Science & Technology: 6 Aug 09
A Swedish woman in southern Sweden has reported four physicians to a national body that assesses medical negligence after they missed a brain tumour the size of a fist. READ »

Couple dubbed racists in son's health records

Society: 13 Jul 09
A woman has reported a hospital in western Sweden to national authorities after discovering she and her husband had been described as racists in their son's medical records. READ »

How do I know whether my doctor is any good?

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Jul 09
Ask The Local: Doctors in Sweden aren't immune to making mistakes. We offer some suggestions about how to learn more about your doctor's past performance. READ »

Swedish surgeon forgets swabs in sewn up mum

National: 10 May 09
A Swedish doctor has been cautioned after forgetting to remove two cloth swabs when sewing up a woman who had recently given birth at Sahögrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. READ »

Swedish teen pregnant after implant mix-up

Science & Technology: 15 Apr 09
A young Swedish couple found to their amazement that they were expecting a baby - despite the fact that the girl had a contraceptive implant. The implant turned out to be a dummy. READ »

Physio back in business after rape conviction

National: 25 Mar 09
A man convicted for the statutory rape of a minor is free to continue practicing as a physiotherapist in Sweden pending a ruling from the country’s medical responsibility board about whether or not to recall his licence. READ »

Too long leg becomes too short after failed op

Science & Technology: 27 Jan 09
A police officer with one leg longer than the other was left with the opposite problem after a failed operation took too much off the leg, leaving it several centimetres shorter than the other. READ »

Doctor keeps licence after oral sex with patient

Science & Technology: 23 Dec 08
A 44-year-old doctor who performed oral sex on a male patient at a Stockholm hospital in 2007 has been allowed to keep his licence. READ »

Physio cautioned for ovary examination

Society: 22 Dec 08
A physiotherapist has been cautioned for improper conduct in connection with an examination of a patient's knee complaint. The examination included an extended 'rummaging' around the female patient's ovaries. READ »

Doctors missed pencil in Swedish boy's brain

Science & Technology: 17 Dec 08
Two doctors from Karlskrona in southern Sweden have been reprimanded for failing to spot the five centimetre chunk of a pencil lodged in the brain of a 14-year-old boy. READ »

Heart patient died while doctor slept

Society: 17 Dec 08
An anesthesiologist who was asleep wearing earplugs while on-call at a Swedish hospital is facing disciplinary action after missing an alert that a patient’s heart had stopped. READ »

More Swedish docs fear malpractice complaints

Science & Technology: 24 Jul 08
Malpractice fears have Swedish doctors spending an increasing amount of their time performing diagnoses which are not medically necessary, according to a new study. READ »

Surgeon accused of faking operations

National: 11 Jun 08
A surgeon at a private clinic in Gothenburg is suspecting of taking payment for operations which never took place. READ »

Woman ordered to diet despite 8 kilo cyst

National: 16 May 08
A 62-year-old woman was told to lose weight by her doctor, despite actually having an eight kilo cyst in her abdomen. READ »

Court gives thumbs up to anal massage technique

Society: 10 Jan 08
A Stockholm has revoked a warning issued to a doctor who used an anal massage technique to cure various aches and pains. READ »

Doc’s oversight costs Swedish man his testicle

Science & Technology: 22 Dec 07
A head physician's misdiagnosis of a 50-year old man's testicular pain resulted in the man's testicle being removed altogether. READ »

'Doctor Anal' resurfaces in Denmark

Society: 20 Sep 07
A Swedish doctor who ran into difficulties in Sweden and Norway for using a controversial 'anal massage' technique has managed to secure a job at a Copenhagen hospital. READ »

Sweden denies apologizing over cartoon row

National: 12 Sep 07
Sweden has denied claims by the Organization of the Islamic Conference that a diplomat apologized for the controversy over the publication in Sweden of a cartoon depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad as a dog. READ »

Seven docs missed lollipop stick up boy's nose

National: 27 Jul 07
Seven different doctors failed to find a six centimetre lollipop stick up a four-year-old boy's nose. Sweden's medical negligence board is to investigate whether they were dopey, sleepy or just bashful. READ »

Doctor fired for 'anal massage' technique

Science & Technology: 4 Apr 06
A Swedish doctor who has previously been cautioned in Sweden for using a controversial 'anal massage' technique to cure headaches has been fired from his job in Norway. "I'm different, but cleverer," he says. READ »

Road agency: new tax to stop sick drivers

Science & Technology: 1 Dec 05
The Swedish Road Administration wants every car owner to contribute to the financing of traffic medicine centres, where doctors can send people they think might be medically unfit to drive. READ »


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