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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: OZschwitz soldier contributes to humanity: Whacks himself Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:15 pm | |
| A MILITARY inquiry into the death of an army captain has been told that the senior medical officer at the navy's Balmoral Hospital did not tell a private drug and alcohol rehabilitation clinic the officer was a suicide risk when he was transferred for treatment.
The decision by George Blackwood not to tell the St John of God Hospital that Andrew Paljakka had threatened to kill himself and twice attempted it after returning from Afghanistan was because the hospital did not want to be "stuck with him", he said.
...Paljakka, 27, was binge drinking while suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and using heroin and amphetamines. He took his life in a Kings Cross hotel on February 26 last year.
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