Some news from our private hospitals:
A number of Danish women have been grossly deceived, after they bought a breast enlargement operation at Glostrup Private Hospital.
In secret, the doctor behind the hospital replaced the breast implant he had promised the women, with a cheaper and unknown implant from South Korea, reveals Ekstra Bladet.
According to the newspaper's information, the maneuver saved the doctor for up to half a million DKK.
In the spring, 500 women bought breast enlargement surgery by Brian Lerche, who operates Glostrup Private Hospital in Copenhagen.
During the three information sessions in Glostrup and Aarhus, the doctor promised women that they would get implants of the English brand Nagor. But in secret, the women suddenly got a much cheaper model - and the doctor did not tell openly that he had swapped the products.
Consumer Council calls the case grotesque and urges politicians to tighten the requirements for this type of operations:
Today, the doctor tells Ekstra Bladet that he probably should have informed the women. But he does not believe that they have an inferior product, even though the new and unknown model is significantly cheaper to purchase.
Source:
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Indland/2012/10/07/105903.htm
Can't say I'm surprised. Why don't private hospitals make an alliance with the tobacco industries - both seem to benefit from more people getting ill.
Assuming the price were the only difference between the implants, the doctor still deceived the people to pay way more than they would have needed to cover the hospital's costs.
Our old government spent a lot of money on over-paying private hospitals and promoting them.
(Also, I'm not stepping into any "moral" discussion about breast implants here or anything.)
