Abuse and errors before rural man's death

By Stephanie Gardiner
Updated August 18 2022 - 11:38am, first published 11:35am
A 75-year-old patient in Wagga Wagga hospital after surgery was bullied and belittled by a nurse. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)
A 75-year-old patient in Wagga Wagga hospital after surgery was bullied and belittled by a nurse. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

As an elderly man moaned and struggled to get out of his hospital bed in the final hours of his life, a nurse rebuked him: "You're not even close to dying, so don't even try it."

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