A mum was prescribed over the counter drugs as doctors dismissed her back pain before she was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer.
Karen Smith’s agony began with a fall at work which left her struggling to walk and meant she could only sleep propped up on a chair.
During repeated visits to her GP at Higherland Surgery in Newcastle-under-Lyme the 55-year-old’s symptoms were dismissed as back pain owing to her job as a pharmacist, despite losing five inches from her height.
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