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Article: 'Cancer' diagnosis robbed me of my husband; pounds 18,000 settlement for brickie's wife after doctors missed pneumonia infection.(News)
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- Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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Byline: LUKE TRAYNOR
A WIDOW has won a pounds 18,000 payout after medics allegedly wrongly told a dad-of-two he had cancer and let him die.
Jack Jones, of Childwall, died in January 2006 in Woolton's Marie Curie hospice.
Months earlier, he had beaten cancer - but after spending time at the hospice in remission, the 76-year-old's shocked family were informed it had returned.
But they never believed the doctors' diagnosis, and a post mortem report later revealed the former bricklayer had instead died from pneumonia.
In late 2006, ...