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leslie colitt -
a year ago
I came to the Charite Campus Mitte after a stay at another hospital which as it turned out misdiagnosed my lumbar ailment.
Prof.Dr. Peter Vajkoczy, Charite's medical director of neurosurgery, studied my previous MRT intently before recommending a series of tests. They were to establish if and exactly where a nerve was being pinched which was causing me such excruciating pain.
I was brought to my room by a friendly nurse - all the nurses and supporting personnel seemed remarkably cheerful despite their heavy workload.
The battery of tests included a new MRT, CT and electrical nerve impulse recorder. An electrocardiogram and echocardiogram were ordered by a anaesthetist who detected a suspicious heart murmur in her stethoscope.
The operation itself passed uneventfully and, presto, the outcome was that for the first time in seven weeks I was no longer in pain.
It's been an amazing week here in the Charite, one which has given me renewed faith in hospitals, surgeons and this Berlin institution in particular.