The patient made multiple trips to the doctor, complaining of increasingly severe back and leg pain that soon moved to his hip.
The doctor gave the patient six steroid injections in the space of nine months to relieve his pain, contrary to the accepted interval between injections of no less than three months.‘Defied the odds’: Mum of Melbourne rollercoaster victim reveals incredible recovery
He was subsequently diagnosed with stage four cancer and died in February 2021, about two months later. The delayed diagnosis meant the patient likely didn’t have time to put his affairs in order and his family wasn’t aware of his cancer until he was seriously unwell, tribunal members said.
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