Patient loses discrimination case against pathology collection centre after spat over queuing system
The patient alleged discrimination when he was barred from a collection centre following a dispute about queues.
A patient banned from a pathology collection centre following a spat over whether his position in the queue had been deliberately ignored has lost his anti-discrimination case.
Seeking $9100 compensation in medical costs and $16,750 in psychology sessions and support worker cover, the patient went before the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal claiming he had experienced panic attacks, agoraphobia and avoidance behaviour.
Diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder, he had been regularly attending the collection centre once a month for blood testing to monitor lithium toxicity.
But the origins of the case dated to a series of attendances he made in 2023.
