JOHN Hunter Hospital's emergency department is buckling under a "perfect storm" of challenges, with staff warning that it's only a matter of time before something goes tragically wrong.
The warning comes after an elderly man died of natural causes while on a stretcher in a hospital corridor on Saturday. Doctors and nurses say they fear they will miss something, or someone, if they don't get the staff, beds, and resources needed to manage an increasingly "overwhelmed beyond capacity" ED.
