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Sat 11 Nov 2008Disabled patients' code urged after death of deaf man (60)
A JURY has recommended that major changes be made in the way hospitals treat patients with disabilities after hearing how a 60-year-old deaf man died as he tried to walk 50 miles home.
An inquest in Galway heard how Seanie Flaherty was trying to walk home to Clifden in Connemara when he was knocked down and killed.
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