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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.