{"id":611196,"date":"2026-04-16T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611196\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:54:08","slug":"indigenous-woman-had-body-pain-for-6-days-before-collapsing-in-hospital-er-wait-room-ontario-inquest-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611196\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous woman had body pain for 6 days before collapsing in hospital ER wait room, Ontario inquest told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Patient deaths are incredibly hard on all of us,&#8217; nurse says<\/p>\n<p>Dupuis says she learned of Winterstein&#8217;s death in a meeting at the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People were reflecting on how the system was working at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember being incredibly confused,&#8221; she says of the meeting. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know why I was there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Varrette asks her if she was aware that Winterstein was Indigenous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I wasn&#8217;t aware,&#8221; says Dupuis, adding she was made aware of Winterstein\u2019s background in that meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The triage nurse is asked if she would have done anything differently if she had the chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair for me to say I would do something differently,&#8221; Dupuis answers.<\/p>\n<p>She also offers her condolences to Winterstein&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Patient deaths are incredibly hard on all of us. I&#8217;m hoping we can have some good that comes from this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Patient deaths are incredibly hard on all of us,&#8217; nurse says Dupuis says she learned of Winterstein&#8217;s death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-611196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}