‘Alcoholic refused medical help’ (From Daily Echo)
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‘Alcoholic refused medical help’
2:50pm Wednesday 30th January 2013 in News
‘Alcoholic refused medical help’
A “chronic alcoholic” refused to go to hospital on the morning before he died, an inquest has heard.
Joseph Thompson, 57, from Millbrook Road East, Southampton, had been drinking at a friend’s house on the night before his death and had slept on a hard floor.
Southampton Coroners’ Court was told that when he woke up his friends called an ambulance – but he refused to get medical help.
That evening, he began drinking again and became unwell at his home, the inquest heard.
Paramedics were called but he suffered a cardiac arrest.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
