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Mr Erlick Pereira 2017-12-17 Person 5 5 0

Having suffered a large bleed on the brain early in the morning of Sunday 8th October 2017, I was transferred under blue lights from the Royal Surrey to the high dependency unit of the neurosurgery ward Atkinson Morley of St George's Hospital Tooting where I had an eight night stay. All in all I had an excellent experience of Erlick and the full team : they are good people. They resisted the temptation to crack me open to have a look until they had found the cause via CT scans and angiogram.In the end , I was found to have an Idiopathic Subarachnoid Haemorrhage and thankfully no surgery was necessary. They were very good at keeping me informed of what was going on at each stage of the process. As promised , two months on I am now essentially fully recovered. One small suggestion : the nurses have a scale of 1 to 10 as to pain level whilst consultants use 1 to 4 . Perhaps there is a need to be a consistency especially as I never give anybody the highest or lowest mark ! Deciding between 2 and 3 was tricky. Eight days after having been blue lighted in , I was able to walk out under my own steam but some 10kilos lighter ! Thank you again : it could have been so much worse.