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.
During a brief opening, Ms Hyde s barrister Andrea Lawrence said the initial one-day inquest held a year after the tragedy in 1973 was cursory and perfunctory and left the family dissatisfied . Enid s family was concerned the 1973 inquest leaves them with more questions than answers about their mother s disappearance, she said. (The findings) are telling for what they are not and what they omit. She told the court Ms Hyde rarely drank alcohol, could not swim and was scared of the water, and was a good mother to her six children - none of which was highlighted in the original inquest findings.