Dr Nicholas Shenker 2019-07-02 Person 1 5 0

Saw Dr Shenker in 2014, two years after onset of a sudden limb impairment associated with a >5 week delay in access to diagnostic tests for a symptomatic proximal DVT. Limb functional loss was associated with permanent damage including chasing of the foot and a loss of the reflex in the leg when first tested in the year after the DVT. Mr Shenker failed to carry out any investigations and incorrectly disputed the DVT in a written letter which he subsequently refused to correct. Despite the DVT having been diagnosed by ultrasound and several months anticoagulation. Disappointed that access to a specialist wasn’t available until several years after onset, and that no tests were carried out during the year after onset of the limb impairment, as a former keen half marathon runner having run a 19 mile run a few days before onset. Acute Compartment Syndrome, was not excluded, nor was an MRI carried out to check whether a Hoffman Contracture was present. And Complex Regional Pain Syndrome was not excluded, nor a nerve block provided when sought, despite the speciality of CRPS on Mr Shenker’s resume. Sadly disappointing, and the limb 7 years on remains unresolved, without appropriate diagnostic tests, sadly. An NHS failure in care. And destroyed quality of life. Sadly.