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Widow of hospital’s medical director says work pressures killed her husband

But the wife of Dr Alasdair MacDonald has failed in her bid for compensation.
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9 May 2025
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Dr Alasdair MacDonald. Photo: Neil Richardson © The Examiner/ACM

The wife of a leading doctor who suffered a fatal MI has lost her bid for compensation after she claimed his death was the result of relentless workplace stress.

The director of medicine at Tasmania’s Launceston General Hospital, Dr Alasdair MacDonald, collapsed on Christmas Day in 2023.

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