Coroner rules doctor errors led to grandmotherâs death Three errors made by a well meaning doctor have led to the death of a grandmother who was suffering significant pain from a neck condition, a coroner says.
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Subscriber only THE preventable death of a Redlynch grandmother who was given a huge dose of morphine by her GP and friend before lapsing into a coma and cardiac arrest was due to poor judgment and well meaning error , a Cairns coroner has ruled. Margaret Cahill, 61, died at Cairns Hospital on September 13, 2017 two days after Dr Barbara Gynther gave her a 60mg dose of morphine to treat debilitating pain caused by a nerve root compression in her neck.
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Subscriber only A TEENAGE boy who killed two young sweethearts in a horrific crash north of Townsville is believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel before his vehicle slammed head on into the couple. The Gulliver boy, who cannot be identified legally, was driving from Cairns to Townsville after attending a music festival the day before. Sleep-deprived after a night of revelry and drug taking the then-17-year-old made the fatal decision to embark on the four-hour journey home. He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing two deaths but the teenager who will turn 19 in just a number of months won t spend any time behind bars.
The young victim of a brutal one-punch attack is fuming over the sentence handed to his attacker after even the magistrate conceded it could have killed him.
âNot appropriateâ: Lawyerâs shock submission in death probe A large morphine dose given to a woman by her GP prior to her death was ânot appropriate in any settingâ and âfraughtâ with risk, a court has heard.
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Subscriber only A LARGE morphine dose given to a Cairns woman by her GP prior to her death was not appropriate in any setting and fraught with risk, a Cairns court has heard. Redlynch woman Margaret Ann Cahill, 61, died at Cairns Hospital on September 13, 2017 after she went into cardiac arrest in her Cairns home the day before and never Âregained consciousness.
Alleged assault victim admitted to hospital before death A woman who died after allegedly being pushed down the stairs was admitted to hospital three times in four days before suffering fatal complications.
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Subscriber only A WOMAN who died after allegedly being pushed down the stairs was admitted to hospital three times in four days before suffering fatal complications from internal bleeding. The Cairns Magistrates Court heard Keith John Williamson, who identified as Kaylah, complained to doctors of being assaulted at the Cairns Hospital emergency department on April 3 last year and had numerous injuries. The court heard she was heavily intoxicated at the time with a blood-alcohol level of 0.33 per cent and had a lengthy medical file of some 5000 pages at the hospital.