Hospital colleagues are credited with saving the life of a senior doctor who was allegedly stabbed by a patient while at work in an emergency department in Tasmania.
"Staff at the NWRH handled the situation incredibly well, performed exceptionally well in saving this man's life," Dr Saul said.
"That would be thanks to the excellent performance of the NWRH staff and the life-saving surgery at the RHH," he said. "We were saddened that this could occur in a place of a healing, a place where people go to get help."
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