A model claims her GP made her feel like a 'drama queen' when they suggested she just had a 'low pain tolerance' to headaches - only to miss a condition that left her blind. Hazal Baybasin began getting headaches at the start of 2019 but says she was 'pushed aside' by her doctor who sent her away with just painkillers.
After three months of constant headaches, the sales worker felt her life was 'falling apart', as she could hardly sleep or eat, and was being pulled into meetings for missing targets and snapping at colleagues. Things got so bad that Hazal, who was 28 at the time but is now 32, finally went to A&E at Barnet Hospital where she claims she was told she was 'absolutely fine' and sent away with co-codamol.
However, after getting a cab home, she passed out on the sofa and was found by her mum and brother who immediately called an ambulance. After a week in Northwick Park Hospital, they discovered three large clots in her brain which were spreading down her neck and within two days Hazal had lost her vision.
