Doctors widow refuses to sue NHS over his death

By By Richard Savill Published: 7:30AM GMT 05 March 2010

Gillian Chapman Photo: SWNS

Gillian Chapman, whose father John, 82, died from mesothelioma, a form of cancer that develops in the lungs as a outcome of bearing to asbestos, pronounced she was brought up "in an old fashioned way", and elite to lead a "simple life".

Dr Chapman grown the condition 50 years ago whilst precision in a hospital, that was built utilizing asbestos.

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The family of a cosmetic surgeon who additionally died of asbestos-related cancer after operative at the sanatorium was formerly awarded �1.15 million in remuneration from the NHS.

However, Mrs Chapman, 73, a former bureau worker, pronounced she did not intend to explain compensation.

She said: "I usually think my father would not have longed for it, and it is not my approach of life. I don"t authorize of those people who go around chasing ambulances perplexing to find someone to sue.

"I think the nation is in a bad sufficient state as it is but people knocking it even more."

Dr Chapmans widow, his second wife, whom he tied together in 2003, pronounced her husband, a GP in Kent for some-more than thirty years, had enjoyed a "good, prolonged life" and the NHS had supposing him with a "very great income".

She said: "I have 3 stepsons and I am certain they share my perspective (about not looking compensation).

"I have been means to work and I suspect I was brought up in an old fashioned way, with elementary values. I was brought up prior to the conform was to sue everybody, thus it seems utterly in accord with not to sue.

"I am not going to be jet-setting around the universe or receiving cruises. I usually wish sufficient to live a elementary life, thats it."

Mrs Chapman, who has a on foot disability, added: "If I got the income I would still be a infirm pensioner, so what is the point of going by all the con of perplexing to sue someone? It would not have me any fitter or any younger, so it is pointless."

Dr Chapman late from use at the age of 65 and was clearly full of health and active at the couples home in Sturminster Newton, Dorset.

"He was a conspicuous man for his age, he was 10 years comparison than me but he had so most physical nature you would have thought he was 10 years younger," Mrs Chapman said.

An inquisition in Dorchester this week in to Dr Chapmans genocide listened that he lerned in the 1950s, at Middlesex Hospital, London, where he came in to steady hit with asbestos.

Dr Chapman complained of breathlessness prior to long prior to his diagnosis. He died at the Joseph Weld Hospice, Dorchester, on Jun 6 last year.

The West Dorset Coroner Michael Johnston pronounced the box was strikingly identical to that of James Emerson, a cosmetic surgeon, who died of the same condition in 1995, elderly 47, after precision at the Middlesex Hospital from 1966 to 1970.

Camden and Islington Health Authority certified guilt for the genocide of Dr Emerson in 1998 and his family was awarded �1.15 million in compensation.

The coroner said: "The sanatorium was a array of mill buildings related by subterraneous tunnels, that the staff used to move fast from one construction to another.

"These tunnels were lined with heating pipes that were insulated with a powdery, grey material. We right away know it was asbestos."

The coroner available the means of Dr Chapmans genocide as virulent mesothelioma due to bearing to asbestos whilst at work. His outcome was that Dr Chapman died from an industrial disease.