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A 65-year-old charity shop volunteer who died from internal bleeding was wrongly diagnosed in hospital and lost a chance of survival, a coroner has found. Alexander Frank Patterson, who lived in northwest Tasmania with his father, felt unwell and vomited blood on the morning of May 22, 2023. He went to work at the St Vincent de Paul Society but was taken to the Mersey Community Hospital after a colleague called an ambulance.
“Assuming a correct diagnosis and rapid escalation of care, Mr Patterson would have had a chance of survival. “As the diagnosis was missed, his death was, unfortunately, a certainty.” An expert medical panel that reviewed his death said there had been “premature diagnostic closure” and clinicians failed to communicate key information. There was ineffective communication between clinicians about Patterson’s elevated blood urea levels, a significant diagnostic sign, the panel said.
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