The Sydney Morning Herald | Paul Lau died at Sydney hospital after wrongly being prescribed fentanyl: inquest The Sydney Morning Herald A patient who went to a north-west Sydney hospital for an "uneventful" day surgery died within hours after an anaesthetist accidentally prescribed him a potent opioid meant for someone else, an inquest has heard. Paul Lau, 54, was a keen skier who went ... Man's overdose death at Macquarie University Hospital shouldn't have happened, inquest hears Man died from drug mix-up after routine knee surgery, coroner hears Man dies after drug mix-up |