Kumar Abhinav -> 4 strokes later
Mr Kumar Abhinav focusses on treating complex brain surgery. Therefore he's hardly going to identify the cause(s) or try or suggest holistic alternatives. Like most doctors, he's likely completely ignorant in this area and surgery and drugs are their only avenue of choice.
I suffered 4 strokes following a supposed low risk standard procedure conducted by Mr Kumar Abhinav in Bristol Southmead Hospital. It's completely ruined my life. The evil and sheer endless incompetence of the NHS and it's endless array of private company partners and suppliers is beyond belief, as is the conduct of the local council.
Having spent 18 months as NHS customers we've have the following observations:
Doctors lack capacity for abstract thought. You can have identical conversations with one doctor to the next. They quote word for word from the same texts and are considerably narrow minded in areas outside of their reading - even when heavily referred to in PubMed. They often can't answer conceptually simple questions which means they don't know why they are doing certain things. (This is distinct from remaining silent for legal reasons - to cover their posterior). Doctors lie so often that they don't know they're doing it and then start believing the lies.
If you use synonyms of medical terms/conditions outside of doctors standard vocabulary, because you have formed these concepts and questions yourself through conceptual inquisition, they look concerned, threatened - almost childish. In fact they all seem to be children in adult bodies.
Surgery is barbaric. It's only necessary following accidents. It's rarely necessary at early stage symptoms before CAUSE is established.
Removing a cyst doesn't cure the patient. It puts a patient at high risk of infection. Cysts often return because something is causing the cyst in the first place.
Neurosurgeons are thick. It's a fact. Take them outside of their domain and they are just average people. The cognitive demands of 'mastering' neurosurgery are immense. This high level of expertise in a narrow field can limit the capacity to explore other areas. A study in the "Journal of Surgical Education" highlighted that specialists, such as neurosurgeons, often have limited exposure to non-medical subjects due to their focused curriculum and intensive training. Specialists, including neurosurgeons, frequently report feeling out of depth when it comes to general medical queries outside their specific area of training.
Some student doctors once walked past muttering 'Sleep - what's that'. The biggest health benefit it what it is. So many doctors look old before their time, they read naff newspapers, eat sugary food. Many NHS staff look really ill.
Somedays you don't feel like working, so you don't, as you know you won't perform and need rest. Why waste 8 hours making a mess when you can do considerably more work in 1 hours when you feel good. But a neurosurgeon has to do the operation at the scheduled time even if they know they don't feel like it. And it's more than likely that they don't feel on form given the toxic environment of the NHS.
Mr Kumar Abhinav called my husband after the operation, hours later than expected. He sounded immensely flustered. We know why.
Preventing a patient from breathing through their nose for one month ... what does this do ... ?! A simple popular book for Jo Public will tell you.
Still, we were more stupid, entering this realm in the first place.