Ruthann Quequish's family describes her as 'a very beautiful person and a much-loved daughter, sister and mother.' Quequish died at age 31 due to untreated diabetes.
The inquest into the 2017 death of a woman in Kingfisher Lake First Nation heard on Thursday from the doctor who treated her in the period leading up to her death – though Dr. Steve Coupland said he was on holiday during the events that immediately preceded Ruthann Quequish's passing.The inquest into the 2017 death of a woman in Kingfisher Lake First Nation heard on Thursday from the doctor who treated her in the period leading up to her death – though Dr.
Leach questioned Coupland's focus on identifying a psychological, rather than physical, cause for Quequish's pain and asked how her diabetes diagnosis "got lost" in the analysis. Instead, on more than one occasion, Coupland started, and then stopped, treating Quequish with metformin – a drug used to control type 2 diabetes; he said Quequish was resistant to taking the drug, and his openness to discontinuing it at times was part of a bargaining process aimed at getting her to "buy in" to treatment.Leach asked Coupland more than once why he did not document this resistance or his reasoning in her file.
Ontario inquest for First Nation woman who sought help for diabetes to examine health-care inequities Lawyer Shawn Bell, representing Kingfisher Lake First Nation, asked Coupland about potential solutions to the challenges he faced providing care to diabetic patients in the community.
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