Mr Erlick Pereira

Written by a patient at St George's Hospital

Dr E Pereira - easy to talk to, kind and listen patients carefully. As I found myself in the hospital due to an accident with serious neck injuries but Dr Pereira took care of me, went through two cervical spine operations. I trusted Dr Pereira completely and would recommend him strongly. He is very straight forward and fair when it comes to what exactly needs doing. I am glad to be recovering and walking again. Hopefully I be recovered fully in a few months but grateful to Dr E Pereira and his team forever. May God bless them and support to continue their miracle work.

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Written by a patient at St George's Hospital

Dr E Pereira - easy to talk to, kind and listen patients carefully. As I found myself in the hospital due to an accident with serious neck injuries but Dr Pereira took care of me, went through two cervical spine operations. I trusted Dr Pereira completely and would recommend him strongly. He is very straight forward and fair when it comes to what exactly needs doing. I am glad to be recovering and walking again. Hopefully I be recovered fully in a few months but grateful to Dr E Pereira and his team forever. May God bless them and support to continue their miracle work.

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Written by a carer at St George's Hospital

My husband has prostate cancer that spread to his spine and caused it to collapse and squash his spinal cord. He was transferred to St George's with extremely weak legs unable to walk and we met Mr Pereira very late one evening. Despite being between operations, he was extremely kind and reassuring to us and not rushed at all as he explained the problem in a way we could really understand and feel truly confident in him and his team. My husband had an operation to remove tumour and make space for his spinal cord and screws in his spine, "scaffolding to keep it strong" as Mr Pereira put it in his clear and confidence inspiring way. He healed well and his legs have improved and he was able to have more treatment. Mr. Pereira was able to meet us in a dark and terrifying situation when we thought my husband would be paralysed and was dying and not only comfort us but made my husband walk again. We owe him and his complex spinal surgery team so much and I cannot recommend him highly enough. We feel very lucky to have been treated by such a caring, professional and gifted neurosurgeon and hope he keeps inspiring and performing miracles!

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Written by a patient at St George's Hospital

Dr E Pereira, was kind and understanding. He explained fully my procedure and explained that he would use a small hole as possible to limit the tissue damage.

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Written by a patient at St George's Hospital

I had an unfortunate Mountain Bike accident in August this year (2016) as a result of which I broken most of my ribs on left hand side, my left hand, left clavicle and left scapula as well as fracturing my L3 vertebrae which was the injury that the doctors were most concerned about. I was flat on my back not moving for two days before Mr Pereira could operate. The operation basically consisted of relocating the broken piece of L3 and securing it between two rods which were secured to L2 and L4. The operation appeared to be succesful and some 36 hours later I was up on my feet walking around and life felt pretty good. Unfortunately I started to get shooting pains down my left leg when I moved around, which gradually got worse and worse. Mr Pereira re-examined me via a CT scan and it was discovered that one of the screws in L4 had become loose and was placing a strain on my spinal cord, causing the shooting pains. I was back to being flat on my back not daring to move in case I did any more damage, fearing the worse. As I laid there I had some pretty dark thoughts of maybe not being about to walk again or even worse being paralysed, all because I had fallen of my bike due to a stupid mistake on my behalf. Anyway a day later Mr Pereira operated for the second time. I went down around 16:30 and was back on the ward around 21:30, having been told the operation was succesful and the loose screw was firmly secured. The next morning at around 08:00 I was up on my feet walking around with no pain. It was truly like a miracle as far as I was concerned. One minute I was contemplating never walking again and the next I was running around (not quite, more like shuffling). People have asked me if I was annoyed by the screw becoming loose and having to have the second operation. I can honestly say no and it was better it came loose while I was still in hospital so I could get treated straightaway. I think people forget how difficult and complicated operating on the human body is, such is the impact of TV Hospital shows, and sometimes for nobody's fault things go awry. All through the process Mr Pereira kept me informed on what was going to happen and what had happened. I appreciated his honesty in revealing the first operation was not as succesful as they had hoped and what the second operation would achieve. Anyway some 4 months later my legs and back are all good and the rest of my body is also healing. I still consider what Mr Pereira did for me was a miracle and I will always be grateful to him and his team, they are truly miracle workers!

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