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Mr Dan Shaerf 2023-08-25 Person 1 5 0

I went Dr Shearf since I was having problems with my right hand fingers in February 2023 and he did his clinical consultation and said that I probably have karpal tunnel syndrome and and wanted EMG scan. I did the EMG scan and result came as “mild karpal tunnel”. Even though it was said that it is mild it was effecting my life quality - I am a banker, I am using computer and mouse all day and I struggled a lot to manage the mouse at work and I shared this with the Doctor and he said I may have steroid injections since it will 80% make the symptoms better, at least it will give a relaxation. However it didn’t help at all. I waited for some time to see if it is going to work but it didn’t, it got worse day by day. I went third time , July 2023, and asked specifically if it could be something else? Doctor said no and he said I need karpal tunnel operation but we couldn’t find common time to do it before my holiday. I came to holiday to Turkey and my wife wanted to check my condition with another doctor, luckily!! The new doctor immediately said “before doing any karpal tunnel operation we need to see if there is any other possible problems in spine especially in the neck area”. He wanted the MRI in firs instance and we found out that I have a huge tumour in my neck and it got huge, covers my three stage of spine (c3-c6) Now I need to have very risky surgery since tumour became so big. Who ever other doctors that we talked afterwards said that if someone has stubborn tingling and numbness in fingers it should be looked at carefully. Emg result was “mild” but my symptoms were not “mild” it was effecting my life quality. There were lots of red flags but doctor Shearf didn’t want to even think about other possible reasons. A simple MRI would have showed the real reason but he didn’t bother to ask for it. Now there are lots of risks for my surgery there are risks that I couldn’t use my hand / arm or may be even legs. I am not sure if I could be able to do my job! T. Kirbay