Mr Neil Haldar 2023-10-22 Person 4 5 0

Mr Haldar has an excellent "bedside manner", immediately exuding an air of confidence in his expertise as well as empathy. Due to my own personal experience (prostate biopsy) I have given 4* rather than 5* as I do feel Mr Haldar should have warned me of the great discomfort (pain, frankly) of this procedure under local anaesthesia and, as a private patient, I should have been offered the option of a general anaesthetic. Only after the event did I go to google and find that general anaesthesia is in fact routinely given by many urologists for prostate biopsy, so I do wonder why this was never even mentioned as a possibility by Mr Haldar. Having said that, I really was most impressed that, after results confirmed my need for fairly urgent treatment, Mr Haldar suggested I should speak to an oncologist for probable radiotherapy, whereas I gather many in my situation are routinely recommended to suffer the many miseries of radical prostatectomy. So rather than suggesting the surgery that could have earned him a fat fee, Mr Haldar simply referred me on, to the detriment of his own bank balance. For this I am immensely grateful as, 12 months later, my treatment appears to have been successful and I still have my prostate!