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Written by a patient
22nd August 2013


As a difficult case, I don't feel this surgeon did adequate imaging or examination in order to truely understand my condition. He performed two surgical procedures on my right shoulder, one to increase range and the other to decompress the sub-acromial space. These both helped but were a long way from addressing my underlying condition. I returned to him 6 months after the second procedure in severe pain to which he almost dismissed me from his room until I insisted he examine me. Instead of referring me somewhere else he just said good luck with that. The outcome was that he had missed two near full-thickness tears and a long-head biceps lesion that required a tenodesis. These were subsequently revised (fixed) by another surgeon six months later.

24th January 2014
Response from Mr Richard Sinnerton

Unfortunately these comments are anonymous so I can't really make a defense of this. I don't recognise the case and think it would be unusual for me to be so dismissive of a patient and their concerns. I may have offered a further follow-up which wasn't taken up and instead of coming back to me to discuss their worries they went elsewhere. Anyway, I am glad their shoulder is better.

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