https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A Swedish university hospital has said a "miss in communication" is to blame after one of its surgeons accidentally set an almost 100-year-old woman ablaze in the operation room. https://www.thelocal.se/20170719/elderly-swede-caught-fire-after-hospital-surgery-malmo-sweden Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:32:00 +0200 elderly-swede-caught-fire-after-hospital-surgery-malmo-sweden A Swedish doctor has been accused of denying one of his patients antibiotics when he refused to join the Catholic Church. https://www.thelocal.se/20160714/swedish-doctor-tried-to-convert-patients-to-catholicism Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:52:23 +0200 swedish-doctor-tried-to-convert-patients-to-catholicism A town in northern Sweden is so desperate for new doctors that anyone who can help find one will earn a handsome reward. https://www.thelocal.se/20160318/can-you-find-a-doctor-for-this-swedish-town-and-win-a-reward Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:56:16 +0100 can-you-find-a-doctor-for-this-swedish-town-and-win-a-reward A doctor in western Sweden worked for several hours in the hospital's emergency room under the influence of alcohol and possibly drugs. He is now suspected of gross misconduct say the police. https://www.thelocal.se/20140713/doctor-probed-for-being-drunk-and-high-at-work Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:56:00 +0200 doctor-probed-for-being-drunk-and-high-at-work More than 10,000 British lives could have been saved if the UK had adopted Swedish heart attack treatments, shows a new study that heaped praise on Sweden's "world-leading" cardiac care. https://www.thelocal.se/20140123/sweden-beats-uk-in-heart-attack-care-study Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:39:00 +0100 sweden-beats-uk-in-heart-attack-care-study An exhibition in Stockholm on refugees was attacked by masked men throwing smoke bombs and scattering leaflets for a Nazi website prompting organizers to close the installation. https://www.thelocal.se/20131006/50622 Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:00:00 +0200 50622 A Swedish doctor employed at Stockholm University has lost his licence after prescribing "for the right fee" benzodiazepine - a drug also known as roofies, moggies or downers - to a student who later tried to commit suicide. https://www.thelocal.se/20130830/49970 Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:02:00 +0200 49970 A hospital has been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) after it chose against sending an ambulance to a woman with breathing problems who died hours later from blood clotting to her lungs. https://www.thelocal.se/20130725/49250 Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:47:00 +0200 49250 A Gothenburg hospital has been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) after a seriously ill patient was forced to wait eight hours in the emergency ward, only to then suffer a stroke and die. https://www.thelocal.se/20120926/43454 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:54:00 +0200 43454 A doctor in central Sweden has come under fire for taking a child with an underlying trauma to a medium, in in an attempt to cure the girl via contact with one of the girl’s dead relatives. https://www.thelocal.se/20120913/43210 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:11:00 +0200 43210 A Stockholm-area doctor who was fired after being convicted for paying for sex is suing his former employer, arguing his termination violates Swedish employment law. https://www.thelocal.se/20120829/42898 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:26:00 +0200 42898 A woman on trial for blackmailing a doctor after their love-affair turned sour has been acquitted by a Swedish court due to a lack of evidence. https://www.thelocal.se/20120712/41980 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:11:00 +0200 41980 A doctor in Malmö in southern Sweden has been fired after punching and refusing to treat a female patient he thought was drunk. The matter has also been reported to police. https://www.thelocal.se/20120523/40990 Wed, 23 May 2012 10:51:00 +0200 40990 A doctor in southern Sweden has reported a woman to the police after she blackmailed him for over one million kronor ($149,059) following their love affair. https://www.thelocal.se/20120515/40840 Tue, 15 May 2012 12:44:00 +0200 40840 A Swedish doctor has been jailed for molesting his female patients after 11 women reported him for his sexual advances during examinations. https://www.thelocal.se/20120510/40748 Thu, 10 May 2012 13:28:00 +0200 40748 Swedish doctors have finally solved the mystery behind an obscure and inconvenient illness that has forced sufferers to urinate up to 15 litres a day. https://www.thelocal.se/20120509/40726 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:14:00 +0200 40726 Nurses at the University Hospital in Linköping, in central Sweden, made to work over the Christmas weekend, were disgruntled to find out that they were given 440 kronor ($64) extra for the trouble, while the doctor on call received an extra 30,000. https://www.thelocal.se/20120111/38436 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:33:00 +0100 38436 A doctor from the north of Sweden was recently found to have offered drugs for sexual favours to women with a history of drug addiction. https://www.thelocal.se/20111021/36892 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:14:00 +0200 36892 Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court (Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen) are opening for doctors to recommend homeopathic cures for patients. https://www.thelocal.se/20110924/36332 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:46:00 +0200 36332 The trial against a Swedish doctor accused of infant euthanasia came underway on Tuesday, a case causing concern among the country's medical profession. https://www.thelocal.se/20110913/36114 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:44:00 +0200 36114