Doctor performed tracheostomy on wife with pen and knife, inquest hears
The Coroner warned he may refer the doctor to AHPRA over his wife's death.
A respiratory specialist has been accused of slicing his wife’s throat open with a kitchen knife and pen, because he believed she was choking, then waiting more than three hours to call an ambulance.
The Coroners Court of Victoria heard that the doctor and his wife went out for dinner and drinks before she was found dead in a Melbourne apartment on 16 January 2015.
The counsel assisting the coroner said the doctor’s wife had a seizure and began vomiting at around 4am — three hours after the couple had returned home.
Her husband believed she had a “blockage” in her throat and used a kitchen knife and pen to surgically open it, he said.
