Category: Sean O'Neill
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Extensive News Coverage of Exeter Coroner’s “Report to Prevent Future Deaths”
The case of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who died in 2021 of malnutrition from severe ME after three hospitalizations failed to halt her decline, has received widespread media attention in the UK. In the most recent development, Deborah Archer, the coroner who conducted the inquest into the matter, this week issued what is called a “Report…
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Coroner in Boothby O’Neill Inquest Issues Report to Prevent Future Deaths
For two weeks in late July and early August, His Majesty’s Assistant Coroner Deborah Archer heard testimony regarding the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, a 27-year-old woman who died of malnutrition after three hospitalizations at the Royal Deven and Exeter Hospital (RDE) failed to address her severe case of ME. While Archer’s report on the…
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Post-Inquest Comments from Sarah Boothby, Maeve’s Mum
During the inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, both of her parents refrained from making public statements about the proceedings. The inquest was held in Exeter, in southwest England, UK, from July 22nd till August 2nd. After the coroner, Deborah Archer, issued her findings–that Maeve died of malnutrition as a consequence of her…
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Sean O’Neill’s Inquest Statement
Last Thursday, both of Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s parents testified at the inquest into her 2021 death from ME-related complications. (I earlier posted Sarah Boothby’s statement as read into the record.) It was the penultimate day of two weeks of court sessions in Exeter, in the south-east of England, UK. The coroner, Deborah Archer, is scheduled…
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Maeve Boothby O’Neill Inquest Highlights Major Systemic Failures at UK’s National Health Service and in Medical Education
Heartbreaking. Infuriating. Mind-boggling. Those three adjectives are as good as any to describe the testimony heard during the first week of the two-week inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, 27, being held in Exeter, a university town in southwest England. Deborah Archer, the no-nonsense assistant coroner who has kept firm control of the…