He was a young policeman who had suffered an epileptic fit several weeks ago – suddenly, out of the blue, changing his life forever. He was taken to his local A&E department where a brain scan showed a tumour. He had recovered from the fit, and as the tumour was a small one, he was sent home and a referral made to the regional neurosurgical centre. It took a while for the referral letter to be passed on to me so he had to wait two weeks before we finally met – two weeks waiting to hear, in effect, whether he would live or die since none of his local doctors would have known enough about brain
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