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Paediatrician tells inquest of ‘feelings of betrayal’ after son’s sepsis death
Deborah Burns tells inquest she witnessed a series of medical blunders at William Hewes’s bedsideA consultant paediatrician has been unable to work at the hospital that failed to save her son from a sepsis infection, after “feelings of betrayal” towards her medical colleagues who ignored her warnings about errors in his treatment.William Hewes, 22, a history and politics student, died on 21 January 2023 of meningococcal septicaemia at Homerton hospital in east London, where his mother, Dr Deborah Burns, had worked for more than 20 years. Continue reading...