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The healthcare ethics of alcohol related harm and driving change by Diana Egerton-Warburton Diana Egerton-Warburton talks about how to be a hero by championing healthcare ethics of alcohol related harm and driving change through stories and data. Have you ever saved a life? Many doctors and nurses have. But, how do you save a life without putting scalpel to skin or picking up a laryngoscope… or even having to go to a hospital? Diana Egerton-Warburton answers this question through the powerful tool of stories. Diana was put on the path of healthcare ethics over twenty years ago. She describes an emergency department shift that changed and shaped her. She sets the scene in the Western suburbs of Melbourne… Heroin bathed the streets and ocean of alcohol. One Australia Day sticks with her. In one Emergency Department shift, Diana saw seven separate episodes of alcohol related family violence. The stories still haunt Diana to this day. Broken bones, abdominal pain, an overdose, a cut lip – these were the faces and