A coronial inquest has begun into the death of a Royal Adelaide Hospital patient who died months after he was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery to remove part of his lung.
abc.net.au/news/sa-dennis-charles-jackson-inquest/101942518A Royal Adelaide Hospital patient died after he was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and had part of his lung unnecessarily removed, a coronial inquest has heard.He had part of lung removed in what the court heard was "unnecessary" surgeryBroken Hill man Dennis "Jacko" Charles Jackson died from pneumonia in January 2019.
Counsel Assisting the Coroner Emma Roper said the inquest will hear Mr Jackson underwent unnecessary surgery on his lung. "In his report, he has expressed the view that there was no need for Dr Edwards to dissect very close to the left … nerve. Ms Roper said the inquest would examine what role the pathology contamination, wrong diagnosis and unnecessary surgery had on Mr Jackson's death.
"It's obviously what they do in South Australia but it is not the procedure that we do in our lab," Professor McLean told the inquest.She said the risk of contamination in a pathology lab was "entirely possible" but the likelihood of that occurring was "entirely dependent on the laboratory's quality assurances".Mr Jackson was remembered during the inquest as a "devoted husband" who cared for his wife, Ramonda, who died the same year as her husband.
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