Coroner 's Finding in Chee
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Chee Kwan Case
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Feb. 10.
A DECISION given by F. N.
Warner Shand, as Coroner, on February 6, 1952, stated that Chee Chee Kwan died in Dr. Eric Wright’s emergency ward at Rabaul, on December 20, 1951, from post operative haemorrhage following a tonsilectomy upon him in the Ad ministration Asiatic Hospital at Rabaul, by Dr. Wright, on December 19.
Hp found that in treating Chee Chee Kwan, Dr. Wright committed errors in judgment due to in
experience and that he based this conclusion on the failure by him to appreciate the sufficiency of the tests to be made as an indication as W o <^ h O^econs^^'^la^ma"^ necessary or not; and *v his failure to call another medical practitioner for his opinion.
Mr. Shand added as a rider to his decision that he considered, in view 0 f the other evidence given at the inquisition, that Dr. Wright’s re marks regarding the Administration Asiatic Hospital were uncalled for an d unjustified. Also in this matter he considered Dr. Wright to be il logical, as on one hand he accepted the Hospital as an institution equipped to perform surgery, and then condemned it.