Paolo Macchiarini, a once-lauded trachea surgeon, has been convicted in Sweden of causing felony bodily injury to one patient through negligence, but was acquitted on charges of assault related to additional surgeries on two other patients; all three died in the months and years following their procedure. The judges in the case handed down a conditional sentence of two years of probation, meaning that Macchiarini’s sentence will be reexamined if he commits another crime within that period, The Local reports.
Elaborating on the sentencing decision, one of the judges, Björn Skånsberg, tells the Swedish news outlet SVT Nyheter that “we have in itself come to the conclusion that all three patients have suffered serious bodily injury and suffering. But we believe that no investigation has been presented that shows that Paolo Macchiarini intended to cause the effects or that he was indifferent to the patients being inflicted with these injuries,” ...
