A Scots man diagnosed with a terminal 10cm brain tumour told how he was fobbed off by his GP five times before being sent away with headache tablets. For more than a year, Scott McBride experienced severe headaches and physical ‘episodes’ which were later determined to be seizures.
The 28-year-old, from Loanhead, Midlothian, trekked to his doctors' surgery on five separate occasions over the course of a year before eventually being referred for a CT scan in October 2021. Medics at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh discovered he had a massive glioblastoma which had been growing for several years and putting pressure on his brain.
Scott said: “The doctor said it was a terminal diagnosis and I wouldn’t recover from it. He said I had just a few short years, which was a big shock. I really wasn’t expecting to hear that."
