Klaus Vetter (medical doctor)

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Klaus Vetter (born September 10, 1946 in Dresden ) is a German gynecologist and obstetrician .

Live and act

Klaus Vetter studied medicine at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Freiburg , Zurich and Heidelberg , where he passed his state examination in 1971 . In 1972 he passed the American state examination of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG). Vetter completed his medical assistantship in gynecology and obstetrics in Hanau , in surgery in Munich , in psychiatry at the Karl Jaspers Clinic in Wehnen and in internal medicine in Ulm and received his license to practice medicine in 1973 . From 1973 to 1976 Klaus Vetter studied sociology , social psychology and psychology in Zurich . During this time he worked intermittently as an assistant doctor at the municipal women's clinic in Konstanz under Hans Frangenheim . In 1977 he moved to the Department of Gynecology at the University Hospital Zurich as an assistant. There he was appointed senior physician in 1981 , completed his habilitation in 1989 and was appointed private lecturer in 1989. He worked here as a senior doctor until 1990. From January 1, 1991 to September 30, 2012, Klaus Vetter was Erich Saling's chief physician at the Clinic for Obstetrics at Vivantes Clinic Neukölln. In the winter semester of 1991 he received his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin , has been a member of the teaching staff at the Humboldt University in Berlin since 1995 and was appointed adjunct professor in 1996.

From 2004 to 2006 Klaus Vetter was President of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics and organized its 2006 congress in Berlin . He is co-editor of the journals Journal of Perinatal Medicine , Archives of Gynaecology and Obstetrics , Obstetrics and Gynecology , and The Gynecologist . Vetter is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Die Midamme , "Midwife Forum" and Gynecological Practice . He has been the spokesman for the National Breastfeeding Commission since 1999 and was President of the German Society for Perinatal Medicine (DGPM) from 2005 to 2007 , whose biennial congresses he organized in Berlin between 1999 and 2015. Vetter is an honorary member of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, the German Society for Perinatal Medicine, the Polish Society for Gynecology and the Swiss Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FRCOG) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG).

controversy

Since October 23, 2019, Klaus Vetter and the former senior physician in the delivery room of the Neukölln Clinic Dr. med. Babett R. charged with manslaughter. With the consent of the parents, Vetter killed a fetus with massive brain damage during a complication-laden twin birth in July 2010 with a potassium chloride injection to enable the healthy child to have a safe birth. All previous attempts at therapy had failed. The indictment states that the birth of the non-handicapped child had already been completed and that there was no danger to the child. The public prosecutor's office therefore denies a medically indicated selective fetocide in the present case and accuses the two defendants of joint manslaughter. He faces a 15-year prison sentence.

Fonts (selection)

  • Klaus Vetter: Quantitative Serum IgA Changes in Children. Dissertation , University of Zurich 1972
  • Klaus Vetter: The ultrasound Doppler examination on the utero-placento-fetal unit: a non-invasive method for recording physiological and clinically relevant pathological changes in pregnancy. Habilitation thesis , University of Zurich 1989
  • Klaus Vetter: Doppler sonography in pregnancy. Weinheim, Basel 1991, ISBN 3-527-15472-8
  • Klaus Vetter: Children - at what price? What it means to have children. Opladen, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-531-13343-8
  • Klaus Vetter, Claus Buddeberg: Feminization in Medicine - Opportunity or Risk? Using the example of gynecology. Akademos-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-934410-54-5
  • Klaus Vetter, Claus Buddeberg: head births: ideas of pregnancy, birth and the puerperium. Akademos-Verlag, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-934410-85-5

literature

  • Hans Ludwig , Walter Jonat : German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics - From Program to Embassy. A short history (1886-2008) of the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics reviewing its 57 congresses. 2nd edition 2008. German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, ISBN 3-00-009676-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.berlin.de/aktuelles/berlin/kriminalitaet/5947357-4362932-process-um-toetung-eines-zwillings-fraue.html
  2. ↑ https://www.rtl.de/cms/berlin-frauenaerzte-spritzen-zwilling-bei-geburt-tot-spaetabtreibung-oder-totschlag-4424613.html
  3. ↑ https://www.bz-berlin.de/tatort/menschen-vor-gericht/berlin-klinik-aerzte- Spritzten-baby-tot-war-nicht- lebensfaehig
personal data
SURNAME Cousin, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden