Pregnant Naomi Williams was sent home from hospital with paracetamol just after midnight on New Year's Eve. Fifteen hours later, she and her baby were dead
Shortly after midnight on New Year's Eve of 2015, Naomi Williams, 27 years old and six months pregnant, presented to Tumut Hospital in severe pain.
"Implicit bias is about associations within people's minds that lead them to make associations about a certain group and characteristics of that group," expert witness Professor Yin Paradies, who holds master's degrees in public health and medical statistics, said. "That stereotype is likely to be present in the mind of Australians, given its pervasiveness," he said.
Her mother made complaints about the matter to the hospital, and asked that Ms Williams be referred to a specialist. While Professor Paradies acknowledged it was difficult to quantify whether the perception of poor service was related to a person's Aboriginality in individual cases, he said comparative data was most useful.
He said that earlier witnesses in the inquest had not been cross-examined on having acted with bias, and that the coroner would fault individual decisions.
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