Throat cancer patient ‘starved to death’ after feeding tube blunder - The Times 15th February 2008

Friday, February 15, 2008

A hospital trust will have to pay damages after a patient who had undergone a successful operation for cancer was then inadvertently starved and poisoned to death. Roy Hodgson, 66, a retired pub landlord, underwent a surgical operation to remove a tumour in his throat at the Cumberland Infirmary, in Carlisle, and was given a good chance of making a full recovery.

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