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A rare flesh-eating bacteria believed to have killed a teenager turned away from Broken Hill Hospital nearly claimed the life of a second man sent home from its emergency department in remarkably similar circumstances.
Peter Carter is suing the Far West Local Health District for negligence after the ordeal left him clinging to life in Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Peter Carter nearly died from flesh-eating bacteria after being sent home from Broken Hill Hospital.
Broken Hill teenager Alex Braes died an âexcruciatingâ death in 2017 after being sent home three times from the hospitalâs emergency department with an increasingly painful and swollen leg.
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