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Great-grandad dies in hospital after 'docs miss horrific broken bone' jutting out leg
reports StokeOnTrentLive. But when he was discharged, daughter Lisa Jenkinson says medics had failed to notice the 80-year-old had a broken leg. Just two days later Lisa called John's GP who immediately noticed his leg was deformed and warned her that the broken bone was likely to break through the skin.Retired prison officer John had previously undergone two knee replacements and was suffering with a range of illnesses, including heart failure, septic arthritis, asthma and COPD.