Midnight BBC News 6/6/06. Workmates pay for Brain-scan.

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 05 June 2006

It is so nice to listen to a story with a happy end.

A guy was suddenly having terrible headaches, but was told it would take 11 weeks to have a brain-scan.

His work collegues then financed an immediate private scan, and he was opperated on within the NHS, having been told he would have died in a fortnight without the surgery.

A happy ending, but one that seems to point in the direction of some rather sad questions...

Fredrik

Posted on: 11 June 2006 by Bob McC

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Posted on: 11 June 2006 by pe-zulu

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Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
Pe-zulu
Wrong info. He had a brain tumour on his brain stem.

Then I would expect increasing headache during the course of some weeks, and not sudden headache. And I would expect some peripheral neurologic symptoms - cranialnerve-paralysis or disturbancies of sensibility. Also if the cause of the headache was sudden hemorrhage in the tumour and not increasing intracranial pressure. Well, this shows how difficult pre-examination diagnoses are. And why clinicans more and more rely on para-clinical diagnoses (X-ray, bioanalyses). To day the situation in my region is almost so, that you can´t get surgery for appendicitis without a preoperative complete CT scan of the abdomen. Well, I put it to extremes, I know.