Rosemarie Campbell's family responds to damning inquest findings

Rosemarie Campbell died three days after gastric bypass surgery in 2022. (Supplied)

The family of a Gold Coast woman who died following complications from a surgery performed by doctor Reza Adib have called for accountability and meaningful change in the wake of damning inquest findings.

The findings from an inquest into the death of Rosemarie Campbell were released on Wednesday.

The 62-year-old died at her Gold Coast home, three days after her second gastric bypass surgery in February 2022.

An inquest found Rosemarie Campbell's death could have been prevented if she had not been discharged from hospital. (Supplied)

In a statement, her family said she should still be alive today, but she was let down.

"That is the hardest thing for us to carry: Mum's death was preventable," the family said.

"She was sent home to us still vomiting and in pain, a long way from The Wesley Hospital to where she lived on the Gold Coast, but she died the very next morning.

Dr Adib has been the partner of former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

The coroner called into question Vahid Reza Adib's credibility. (AAP: Jono Searle)

In her findings, Deputy State Coroner Stephanie Gallagher was scathing in her assessment of Dr Adib's credibility and flagged major concerns with his conduct before Ms Campbell's surgery.

This included Dr Adib's concession that he made false statements in a letter to the Australian Tax Office (ATO) to allow Ms Campbell to access her superannuation to fund the surgery.

The letter stated the reason for his patient's surgery was for "life-threatening obesity", but during the inquest, Dr Adib conceded this was not true.

"There is very little within the one-page letter that was in fact true," the coroner wrote.

"I would accept that Dr Adib knew the falsity of it when he signed it."

The coroner found the surgeon did this to ensure Ms Campbell's application was successful, describing this as an "egregious breach of his responsibilities as a medical practitioner to have signed such a letter."

In a statement to the ABC, the ATO confirmed it was aware of the coroner's findings.

"The ATO's ongoing regulatory and compliance work makes it clear that there are consequences for behaviours that are being observed across the system," a spokesperson said.

The ATO said it was undertaking various compliance activities to address concerns with registered agents, health practitioners and individuals and "the outcomes of these activities may include imposing penalties for making false or misleading statements to the ATO."

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