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When Nurses Hid Patients: The Surgeon Who Slipped Through Checks
When Nurses Hid Patients: The Surgeon Who Slipped Through Checks
Fear of institutional failure: nurses at Bundaberg Base Hospital physically concealed patients from their own chief surgeon, a documented practice that accompanied at least eighty-seven linked deaths - how did a man with prior disciplinary sanctions rise to run a regional surgical unit without effective checks?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline, records and actions that followed when concerns were raised about surgical outcomes at a regional hospital, tracing the hires, prior sanctions, and the whistleblower's role - and…
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