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"Consultants can get it wrong"

About: Salford Royal / Neurology

Waited 4 agonising months for appointment as I was struggling walking and consentrating total unusual for me and I was a bit worried being a healthy 35 year old previously.Consultant said I had no hard neuro signs and said it was anxiety I disagreed but he didn't listen just ordered a brain scan and suggested antidepressants if the scan was ok ( it was).long story short after two years of suffering a new very good gp ran some blood and discovered I had b12 deficiency.The change is night and day he saved my life.Neuro consultants are too reliant on brain scans and once they diagnosed me it takes a brve gp to go against there advice...I know they do a good job for the obvious but in my case it was hard people respect there authority including family members saying listen to the diagnosis of Anxiety pushing antidepressants on a person is wrong...if he ran bloods 2 years ago it would of saved a lot of suffering...

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Response from Salford Royal 5 years ago
Salford Royal
Submitted on 15/10/2018 at 08:37
Published on nhs.uk at 09:06


Dear Anonymous

Firstly, thank you for taking the time to post your comments. We are so sorry to hear about your experience with our service at Salford Royal.

We value all comments as it helps us to continuously improve our service.

We are committed to improve our patient experience and therefore we appreciate you bringing this to our attention. To allow us to investigate this further, can I ask that you contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), on 0161 206 2003 or email them directly on pals@srft.nhs.uk with further details of when you attended?

Kind regards.

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