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Doctors refuse to fix builder's broken ankle unless he quits smoking
By CHRIS BROOKE - More by this author » Last updated at 07:40am on 14th September 2007
Comments (22) A man with a broken ankle is facing a lifetime of pain because a Health Service hospital has refused to treat him unless he gives up smoking.
John Nuttall, 57, needs surgery to set the ankle which he broke in three places two years ago because it did not mend naturally with a plaster cast.
Doctors at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro have refused to operate because they say his heavy smoking would reduce the chance of healing, and there is a risk of complications which could lead to amputation.
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