GP praised during inquest after taking over sole medical care of woman with life-threatening anorexia
The inquest heard that '99 out of 100 GPs' would have refused given the complexity of care she needed.
A GP has described the professional isolation he faced after taking on the sole medical care of a woman with terminal anorexia nervosa.
In a case that once more highlights the lack of state-funded care for those with life-threatening eating disorders, Chloe Tupper weighed just 34kg when she died in June 2020 from organ failure.
Her condition meant she had never gone through puberty and remained “almost child-like”, having never forged an independent life, a WA inquest was told.
But she had rebelled against treatment by running away before hospital appointments and taking overdoses of paracetamol and her prescription medications, with hospital clinicians agreeing she was not suitable for active treatment because of her suicide risk.
