Lethal dose of morphine given to Sheila Thurlow a ‘failure’ of everyone involved, inquest hears

An anaesthetist who was present when an elderly woman was given an “outrageously high” dose of morphine at a Brisbane hospital by another doctor has told a coroner the deadly mistake was a “failure of everyone in that theatre”.

In June 2022, Sheila Thurlow, who had metastatic cancer, underwent a…