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Doctor tells inquest girl’s death after discharge from emergency room ‘may have been preventable’ – ABC News
WA’s Deputy State Coroner says an emergency room doctor had a time limit in mind when he discharged an Indigenous girl who died the next day with a severe infection….
A doctor who treated a 16-year-old Indigenous girl who died 16 hours after she was discharged from a hospital in regional Western Australia denies he was fixated on the idea her symptoms were drug-related.
Key points:
- The 16-year-old girl is known only as Child T for legal reasons
- She was taken by ambulance to Kalgoorlie Health Campus about 9.00am on December 24, 2016
- The girl was discharged undiagnosed almost four hours later and died early the next day
And an independent medical specialist has…
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