Adams' feats did not go unnoticed however. He was credited by Harold "You've never had me so good" Macmillan with reducing waiting-lists by an admirable 163 patients in the years 1935-1956 and knighted secretly. Credit would have been given for further culling, but Adams' muddled paperwork made accurate calculations impossible. Adams' legacy lived on after his death in 1983. Harold Shipman, MDMA, had a poster of Adams on his wall in Wormwood Scrubs and a fading-to-pink tattoo of him on his left kneecap.