Coronial Inquests. Two cases, two conclusions.

"A Tasmanian coroner has found the Royal Hobart Hospital was right to discharge an elderly woman who later died from a brain haemorrhage.
Ms X was treated at the hospital's emergency department for facial and head injuries, and discharged about four hours later, showing no signs of cerebral bleeding. She was re-admitted later that night and died about 36 hours after the fall... the emergency department had acted appropriately, apart from failing to record clinical observations."


"A Tasmanian coronial investigation has found the death of a four-year-old boy could have been avoided if his mother had sought medical treatment for his head injury.
 An autopsy showed [he] died from a significant blow to the head and that he had a number of other serious injuries at the time. About two weeks earlier, [he] had fallen down some steps and hit his head on a woodbox. .. the four-year-old was wobbly on his feet and had a mark on his forehead, but his mother did not take him to the doctor."

(ABC online)

 
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