A senior Royal Adelaide Hospital stroke specialist has cancelled her leave after uproar following revelations two senior specialists — of only four accredited in the state to suction brain blood clots — were again going on leave at the same time. The last time both interventional neuro-radiologists (INR) Dr Rebecca Scroop and Dr James Taylor went on leave at the same time, the RAH was left without a specialist who could do the procedure. Michael John Russell, 60, and Leslie Robert Graham, 81, died at the RAH in April last year, when both specialists were on leave and there was no-one on call to perform the procedure, and their deaths are the subject of a coronial inquiry.
