Jade Edgington, 28, Solihull
Trust. Not always easy to build with someone you’ve never met.
But a doctor? You trust them immediately, don’t you?
I did.
When I went to a private hospital with my mum Karen, now 55, and my dad Brian, 57, in October 2005, we all did.
We instinctively put our faith in Ian Paterson, the doctor I’d been referred to see when I’d found a lump in my left breast the month before.
My GP had been concerned after I felt the grape-sized growth.
As Dad owns his own company, we had private insurance and went to the Spire Parkway Hospital, owned by Spire Healthcare.
‘It’s a fibroid adenoma,’ Mr Paterson said. ‘Not cancerous, but we’ll need to operate as soon as possible to remove it.’…
