Doctor accuses hospital of ‘offending our humanity’ in scathing resignation letter

Leading emergency consultant Dr Megan Brooks resigns from SA hospital, saying doctors are unable to provide care
Dr Megan Brooks. Photo: Newspix.

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.