Legacy MattersYes, he was 80, with prostrate cancer and partially blind and deaf, and after going to his local hospital to get treatment for his anemia (three blood transfusions instead of the injection he expected), he decided to call for a taxi to take him home. The pay phone in the hospital was broken, so he decided to walk. After all, he didn't want to make a nuisance of himself by asking for transport, or even to stay a bit longer, maybe overnight.
Tragedy of patient 80 who died because he didn't want to be a nuisance.
An elderly man died after having to walk home following three blood transfusions because he couldn't call a cab from the broken hospital pay phone that staff had sent him to.
Retired civil servant Aplyn Wynn-Jones, 80, was physically sick after taking two hours to walk the one and a half miles to his house.
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Mr Storer said: 'He died from the well-recognised symptoms of overload, where the body cannot cope with the volume of blood.
'When we arrived, the look of panic on the man's face was appalling.
'His lungs had filled up with liquid and his organs were failing. He was clearly dying.
'I called a doctor who was outraged and said we must make an official complaint.