Dr George Follows

Dr George Follows 2024-04-16 Person 5 5 0

It’s a horrible word “cancer” - puts the fear of God into most of us. Me? I’m so lucky to be just a fifteen minute drive from Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Made that journey 5 years ago given that the sleeping giant (Lymphoma) had woken up and begun to misbehave. (I had been on a monitored watch & wait programme for some 10+ years or so). Again, luck played its part and I met Professor George Follows. There’s something about him that convinces one to trust and rely on his knowledge and expertise. A Consultant Haematologist specialising in blood & skin cancers. Mine had a name - Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinaemia. The Professor and his team (very much to include specialist nurses Sarah & Gwyn) have looked after me ever since making me feel like their only patient. That’s a skill that patients would covet. But, the buck stops with the boss and he must take a whole chunk of responsibility as to what goes on in his clinic. So, I’ll delay no further in singing his praises. To be an effective communicator, you have to listen as well as speak (tick); he involves the patient with forward planning rather than imposing a dictat (tick) and he’s also a thoroughly nice chap (tick). Paul Jackson.

Dr George Follows 2023-11-30 Person 5 5 0

I have a long-term haematological problem and have been in Dr. Follows' care for 3 years now. He is a fantastic professional; he listens, he cares, and he treats his patients like human beings and not just numbers. And we are talking NHS here, not private. There are not many doctors one can fully trust, and Dr. Follows is definitely one of them. I can highly recommend Dr. Follows; I couldn't have wished for more.

Dr George Follows 2023-09-01 Person 5 5 0

Following severe anxiety and abnormal blood counts. We were recommended to see Professor Follows. With absolute fear in my daughter’s body he immediately reassure her and listened. He was absolutely brilliant-a true gentleman. You simply knew he cared and knew that what he was saying was right. We as a family know his help has allowed our daughter to start to recover and has a fantastic life ahead of her. Thank you

Dr George Follows 2020-04-07 Person 5 5 0

He is brilliant.

Dr George Follows 2018-10-31 Person 5 5 0

A lung shadow had been detected by, and I had run the gamut of scans through to PET scan and ultimately a CT-guided biopsy at, a Leeds private and Leeds regional NHS hospital. All tests failed to provide my Leeds-based pulmonologist with an answer but did finally frustrate his drive to cut a piece of my lung out, convinced as he was throughout that I had early stage lung cancer. I then (2104) turned to the lung defence team at Papworth Hospital Cambridge to which Dr Follows was attached as a specialist in the field of lymphomas, working out of Nuffield Health Hospital in Cambridge. A combination of Papworth, radiologists, lab technicians at Addenbrooks and Dr Follows alighted on a diagnosis of a relatively rare Malt Lung lymphoma. Dr Follows and a consultant oncology radiologist at Bedford Hospital then took my treatment forward through a course of low dose radiation therapy. Dr Follows is a real gentleman and gave me confidence throughout as being a leading national expert in the condition and explained everything thoroughly in the 3 or 4 consultations we had. The therapy was not at all gruelling (which is as he predicted) and in concluding that it had been a complete success in his view I liked his sign-off. "You might take this differently but I think it's good news that I don't expect to see you again and I'm pretty sure you'll die of something else, not a lymphoma!" Four years later, and when the Papworth team who monitor my bronchiectasis noted that there was no sign of recurrence of my lymphoma, it struck me that I had never doubted for those four years that there would be.