Six-month-old Weston was fast succumbing to infection in a hospital waiting room when his parents saw a poster that they have no doubt saved his life. For several days his mother, Brittany McDaniel, and father, Zack Tyndall, had been sent home or made to wait after being told the rash devouring his face was an allergic reaction or a bad case of eczema.
But as his eyes rolled back into his head, Weston’s parents couldn’t wait any longer. That was the moment last October when Tyndall saw a poster explaining “Ryan’s rule”. Once invoked, it would summon a senior clinician for a second opinion.
The panicked father dialled the number on the poster and a paediatric doctor arrived within
