It has long been rumoured that North Coast Area Health Service CEO Chris Crawford has his damage control down pat and the outcome of the service's complaints process heavily favours a positive outcome for the regional hospitals involved.
So it came as no surprise that a 2003 complaint appears by default to have gone in favour of the named doctor and Lismore Base Hospital.
Nor does it surprise that last June Crawford wrote to the patient involved and apologised for the mishandling of her complaint.
Seeing the light and genuinely sorry? Hardly.
Chris was sprung by unfolding events, because the doctor's registration was suspended in February 2008.
What many of us would like to know is why it took a former patient to jog NCAHS memories about Hasil and why it took Crawford four months after the doctor's suspension to write to this patient?
Also why it was that NCAHS did not react to local media reports on this doctor in February other than to supply the misleading information that "Dr Hasil was never formally accused of malpractice during his time at Lismore Base Hospital" and why senior hospital medical staff virtually ignored the doctor's alleged behaviour between 2003 and 2005.
Not good enough, Chris, not bl**dy good enough!
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