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Hospital’s failing led to postman’s death following football injury
A man died after doctors missed a fatal blood clot which developed after routine knee surgery, we have found. The man’s death has now been ruled as avoidable.
The man, who had been a postman for over 30 years and was a semi-professional footballer in his younger years, died of a pulmonary embolism after doctors failed to test for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), despite noting that it was a risk following the surgery.
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