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Father-of seven William Chapman only discovered he had deadly pulmonary fibrosis when his GP – who thought he already knew his prognosis – mentioned it during a phone call

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Doctors failed to tell a father-of-seven he was terminally ill and instead told him he would be ok, an investigation has revealed.