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Ongoing treatment failures at Launceston General Hospital has parents worried, as union flags staff burn out

Melanie Morris, with her daughter Kaitlyn, says she was told by a doctor "you're only a mother, what would you know?". (ABC News: Erin Cooper-Douglas)
  • In short: Parents have spoken out about what they say is unsatisfactory treatment at Launceston General Hospital, off the back of a damning coroner's finding.
  • What's next? The government says there has been a "significant uplift in training and education" for hospital staff statewide.

Melanie Morris vividly remembers the sense of searing anger as she held her barely responsive toddler in her arms in the emergency department for the fourth time in a week.

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