of local hearings that his son had looked up 'can pain kill you' on his iPad in the days before his death."He was our first child, our ray of sunshine," he said.
"One of the things that really stood out for me when I saw you that night was how sweetly you and Alex treated one another," he said. One matter consistently raised throughout the week's proceedings was a business rule then in place at Broken Hill Hospital when Mr Braes presented there four times in September 2017.
Deputy State Coroner Magistrate, Elizabeth Ryan, asked Ms Murphy whether the rule resulted in fewer cases of vital signs being taken and recorded at the hospital once implemented.Registered nurse Kristy Kelly, who was the team leader in the hospital's emergency department on the morning of September 21, 2017, told the inquest she was bound by that rule.
Ms Murphy also told the inquest that there was about a 10-minute wait in the emergency department from the time Alex came to the triage window to when he was looked at by her, as she was busy triaging another patient. On the first day, the Broken Hill hearings heard that Alex might have died from an infection, invasive Grade A Streptococcus, possibly from the ingrown toenail or a cut.
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