The brilliant reputation of Berlin’s Charité attracts patients from all over the world. Now research by star and RTL paint a different picture of Germany’s largest medical factory: organizational deficiencies, overworked doctors and mistakes that endanger people.
As a rainy Berlin Friday approaches midnight, two passers-by in a trendy district discover a man lying lifeless on the sidewalk. Middle-aged, slim, carefully dressed. Blood appears to be seeping from the back of his head. They call the emergency services. It is 11:12 p.m.
Not a hundred meters away, a woman with long curly hair is waiting in a bar and is worried. She met her husband late in life; their wedding was on a Tuscan estate, surrounded by vineyards. It’s not like him to keep her waiting and not answer the phone when she calls.
Now, five years later, Marc Omar sits in an armchair on the first floor of a Wilhelminian-era building on Kurfürstendamm and just shrugs his shoulders. It is as if someone had put a wall of frosted glass between him and his previous life. He has no memory, not of that evening, not of the weeks that followed. He has to stick to what he can reconstruct with the help of the rescue reports, hospital documents and his wife’s stories.
It is the result of a skull fracture and a brain hemorrhage. He had to learn to speak again, like a small child, and gave up his job as an advertising copywriter. He still sometimes searches for words that he cannot find.
Omar and his wife, herself a doctor, accuse the clinic where he was taken of life-threatening negligence. In particular, that doctors overlooked his serious head injuries. The clinic denies the allegations. Marc Omar has therefore filed a lawsuit. A patient against a myth. The hospital was the Charité.
Source: Stern
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