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Assoc Prof Amit Goyal 2023-11-05 Person 5 5 0

I have been trying to write this for the last 2 1/2 years and I had no idea it could be so emotional. I’m not really sure where to start when I am writing about someone who has saved your life Mr Goyal didn’t know me. I was just another patient and I didn’t know him. I first met Mr Goyal in November 2018 I had been referred by my GP. after finding a lump in my right breast. I sat in the Derby Royal breast unit after having a horrendous journey to the hospital and unable to find a parking space in the pouring rain for a mammogram a few chairs away was a young girl, sobbing, I had my mammogram and was then sent for an ultrasound and then called through to see Mr Goyal. He examined me, and explained that I would need to have a biopsy, by this time everything was a blur. I remember asking Mr Goyal if I should be worried if I had breast cancer and he answered it’s not if it is but what it is. I had no idea what he meant but knew it was bad news. he was very thoughtful and kind and I knew straightaway that my care under Mr Goyal was going to be excellent. I remember attending an appointment a couple of weeks later at the Royal Derby for a blood test. I was waiting in the waiting room full of other patients and Mr Goyal saw me , I had only seen him twice before he approached me and acknowledged me by name asking if I was okay he didn’t know I was going to be there and the fact that he knew my name made me feel safe in his care. He was always honest with any queries my husband and I had and I trusted him 100%. My treatment was not as frightening as I first thought, and with the care of Mr Goyal and my oncologist I completed the treatment and see Mr Goyal once a year. I have now retired from work and have a wonderful granddaughter and a new life without Mr Goyal’s positivity, wonderful, kindness and care, life could have been very different. He is a credit to his profession, and still, he knows nothing about my life, and I know nothing about his. I was confident to place my life in his hands. Thank you so much Mr Goyal .