An Italian doctor who treated a
tumour patient who later died with herbs and psychology
according to the controversial theories of German doctor Rike
Geerd Hamer on Tuesday got two years and a half years in jail.
Germana Durando, a GP and homeopath, treated a young woman with
a birthmark on her left shoulder that was diagnosed as a
malignant melanoma. The cancer killed the patient. Turin judges
ordered a provisional payment of 10,000 euros to the victim's
daughter, 5,000 euros for her brother and 5,000 euros for her
mother. "We often complain about the slowness of justice," said
the family's lawyer Marino Careglio. "But here justice was
swift: it came two years after the fact. And it worked".
The doctors' defence lawyer, Stefano Castrale, stressed that the
punishment was lower than what prosecutors asked and that the
judges did not order Durando to be disbarred.
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