Doctors operatedon healthy for cash

Three Italian surgeons have been jailed for carrying out unnecessary operations, including amputations, to make money from the health system.

A court in Milan was told they operated more than 80 times just for personal gain.

The chief surgeon, Pier Apollo Berg Mason, received the stiffest sentence of 15-and-a -half years. Two other former surgeons at the Santa Rita clinic were sentenced to six and 10 years.

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