Peter Rae, whose 18-year-old daughter died earlier this year of anorexia-related health complications, has expressed anger over the care his daughter received in days leading up to her death. Alice was admitted to a hospital Dec. 29, 2008, but was discharged just 20 hours later.

The matter was addressed in a Dec. 3 article on the Hampshire Chronicle website:

[Christine Rae] was admitted to Winchester's Royal Hampshire County Hospital on December 29 last year. She was sent to hospital after telling a doctor she had spent the Christmas period sleeping all but four hours of each day.

"We had very grave concerns [about her discharge] with very good basis," said Mr Rae, a company director. "We had been told on admission she would be in for a number of days.

"We were very surprised she was discharged after 20 hours with no instructions other than to resume the treatment programme that was not working."

Winchester Coroner's Court heard that Miss Rae had become so weak she was unable to walk more than 50 yards and doctors at RHCH had discussed fitting her with a heart pacemaker. ...

Isabel Lewzey, who treated Miss Rae at an eating disorders clinic in Eastleigh, said her client had been angry about the treatment she was receiving.

"She felt that we were not taking her condition seriously enough and that she needed more than outpatient individual therapy."

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