Seventy-three-year-old John Douglas Mitchell died from aspirational pneumonia, septicaemia and bowel obstruction in November 2016, two days after he went to an after-hours GP. (File photo)An Otago man who died from a bowel obstruction could have survived with better medical care, a coroner has concluded. Seventy-three-year-old John Douglas Mitchell from Owaka died from aspirational pneumonia, septicaemia and bowel obstruction in November 2016, two days after he went to an after-hours GP. "...which should have prompted consideration of a bowel obstruction due to incarcerated bowel within the hernia, and urgent admission to hospital." "...it would have changed my management and could have helped prevent this fatal sequence of events".

Source: Stuff September 30, 2019 23:26 UTC