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UK Doctors refuse to fix builder’s broken ankle unless he quits smoking email this discussion to a friend?

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In a follow-up to my “No hip replacement for you, fatso!” post, the Daily Mail reports that in Britain”Doctors refuse to fix builder’s broken ankle unless he quits 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 [...]

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