Opinion: It’s the story I never thought I’d have to tell and the last story I’d ever want to tell. But in the end, it was the story that gave me no choice | Liz Hayes
It’s the story I never thought I’d have to tell and the last story I’d ever want to tell. But in the end, it was the story that gave me no choice.Bryan Ryan was a proud and trusting rural man who spent his entire 88 years living and loving life not too far from the meandering Manning River on the NSW mid-north coast.
His heart certainly didn’t like the double dose he received. But soon dad, ever the fighter, recovered and not long after, so too did his infected lungs. Liz Hayes with her father Bryan Ryan, a proud and trusting rural man who spent his entire 88-years living on the NSW mid-north coast.I watched my dad struggle for life. It was traumatic and overwhelming.
It was confirmed after what’s called a Root Cause Analysis, an investigation the hospital was required to do when there is an unexpected death.But then on closer inspection I also couldn’t believe that this was a rural private hospital of 79 beds that usually had just one doctor on the wards. Doctors brought in often from outside of the area. And when the lights went out, so too did the doctor.I got over my shock when I realised this was not uncommon in rural areas.
Seeking information from her father’s hospital medical records offered little help. Pages were missing, doctor’s names were wrong, and even more alarming, another patient's records were included.In the weeks that followed his surgery Allan Wells would be discharged from two country hospitals against the family’s wishes.
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