A leading emergency doctor has slammed Royal Adelaide Hospital executives in a scathing resignation letter, alleging “disdainful” treatment of doctors who raise concerns about patient safety. 

In her four-page resignation letter, Dr Megan Brooks said she had resigned as the Medical Lead for Acute and Urgent Care in a state of “overwhelming despair” after a decade at the hospital, including six years on the leadership team.

She blamed disrespectful management and a lack of action over ambulance ramping for her decision.

“I can no longer play a leadership role in an organisation which has so little respect for its workforce, no capacity to reflect [and] which characterises clear and present dangers to patient safety as ‘clinicians making a fuss again’,” Dr Brooks wrote in her resignation letter dated 16 December.