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Woman dies after hospital missed heart attack symptoms

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A health watchdog has found a litany of failures in an understaffed and overcrowded ED meant by the time doctors realised a woman was having a heart attack, she had gone home and later died. That was after waiting 11 hours for help she did not get. 47 year old Michelle Pillay had an extensive medical history, including type 1 diabetes. Michelle's partner Roison Connelly waited with her for those 11 hours, and spoke to Lisa Owen.