Dr Nicholas Silver

Dr Silver, quite simply, changed my life. After 12 years of being pushed around various Drs & Consultants for dizziness/brain fog/slurred speech etc. I was fortunate enough to get referred to Dr Silver. I actually saw him at Spire Cheshire Hospital via my private insurance cover. Dr Silver listed to all my symptoms, asked me lots of questions about my past history and diagnosed Chronic Migraine. By following his advice I was able to turn my life around and get back to enjoying life with my family. He was caring and listened. I have since seen him talk at a Migraine Charity event and he was brilliant there too.

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Dr Silver is a very intelligent, knowledgable and experienced man. I was referred to him by my GP for the regional headache service he runs up at the Walton centre. He was very supportive in writing medical letters on my behalf towards my attending a disability hearing tribunal, which I will be forever grateful to him for. Thanks to his letters I was successful in my hearing and am now recognised as being disabled by my condition. I highly recommend this dr to anyone suffering from a neurological or unexplained medical problem. I'm so grateful for his continued knowledge and study of the brain and in trying to help migraine patients like me who feel so ignored and stigmatised by other dr and the public in general.

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The nursing staff and general staff were very welcoming at this hospital. Dr. Silver is undoubtedly a very clever, experienced man and knowledgable in his field. However, he kept me waiting at every consultation,( once for over two hours without any explanation or apology). At each meeting, I felt physically rushed and pressurised, feeling sad, angry and frustrated at not being given the time and space to simply communicate openly with him. He often was rude, impatient and would talk over me. I wasn't allowed to ask questions about my condition or any given treatment. If patients are to build trust in their dr they need to be given the time and space to converse with them. If he asked a question, I had to answer immediately and this was impossible given I was so in so much pain. The emotional and psychological stress of not being able to converse with him as my dr, worsened my overall condition rather than going towards trying to make me better. Also, one off yearly appointments for someone with unremitting, debilitating migraines, in a state of constant status migrainousis and feeling suacidal almost daily, is not enough. Dr should be contactable between appointments if their treatments aren't physically working. I did not report these frustrations and failures in my patient care at the time to the hospital, for fear of it affecting my overall care. But I'm just so sad to think that with so much experience this dr lacks,(or has forgotten), the simple healing powers of compassion and understanding needed to be shown towards his patients. I really hope going forward he can learn from his mistakes, retain some humility and humanity, by giving patients simply more time and space and a kinder approach and then he could be the better Dr for it. Experience isn't helpful to patients without empathy attached. Kindness towards patients who are genuinely ill and in distress is as important,(if not more so), than clinical knowledge. I hope Dr Silver can become a better dr in future by taking these comments on board.

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Dr Silver is the best neurologist I have ever seen. I was unhappy with my previous consultant as he did not listen to me so I swapped to Dr Silvers care. He was absolutely fantastic. He listened to me and the many, many questions that I had. He was the first consultant to suggest I could try the Cefaly. Although I am in the early stages of using this it has transformed my life. I have no idea why it was not suggested by another consultant. You can just tell that when you speak to him he has years and years of experience and genuinely cares. He also reassured you that the symptoms you have are normal. I can’t thank him enough and would recommend everyone to see him! Thanks Dr Silver!!!!!

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I started to see dr silver many years ago at first I found him quiet rude and arrogant but as you get to no him he’s fantastic very thorough with all his questions etc. Never been a problem seeing him it’s just lately I’m really struggling with pain and waiting for new medication isn’t helping my condition at all.

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