Retired doctor suffered 'horrifying' death on understaffed NHS ward

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Retired doctor suffered 'horrifying' death on understaffed NHS ward
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An inquest has found a retired doctor died because of a basic medical error on an understaffed NHS ward which had just three nurses looking after 32 patients the night he died. His daughter said ‘ultimate responsibility lies with the government.

Dr David Gordon-Nesbitt was undergoing a standard operation that he had been through before

The 84-year-old needed an operation to remove a bowel obstruction, a simple procedure he had received previously to deal with legacy of a tumour removal in the 1990s. The oversight caused his lungs to fill with fluid and he developed sepsis, went into cardiac arrest and died.

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