Looking for guidance

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Hello everyone
I really don’t know where to start or how to start, and it took me some days to summon the courage to come out here and write, so I am just gonna say it as it is and hopefully I’ll get somewhere.

A dear friend of mine in his 60s has been living with MS for a number of years and lately his condition is worsening significantly.
He has done various tests and undergone various treatments and none seemed to help
Various doctors looked at his case but he always felt that he wasn’t understood well enough and their diagnosis was somewhat shallow and systematic as if they were looking at a manual and deciding the outcome of his condition without giving enough emphasis to the overall circumstances of his condition and state.
That feeling of not being understood and diagnosed properly is not helping his mental state either and when your spirits are down, your state worsens.
He has reached out to me lately and I am trying to help but I don’t know how.
He has asked me if I can help find a good neurologist and present his examinations and file to him maybe he can get a different opinion
It hurts a great deal to see him like that and I want to help but I don’t know:
whom to ask ? Or where to go
And b: he is not in the uk, he is in Greece,
So even if I find a good doctor who is willing to look at his case, he will be looking at files and facts as I don’t think my friend can travel given his condition.
I am willing to translate and help as much as I can.
I don’t know what else to do :frowning:
So any guidance will be helpful and I am really thankful for your time guys

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Hi and a difficult situation for you. Do you know much - anything about the Greek health service?

All I can think of is that it might need you to go to Greece to see what you can do.

I can’t see the NHS doing anything but you could ask a few Private neurologists if they would be prepared to offer a view but …… Even if you got an opinion from a UK neurologist would the Greek service take any notice of it?

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Hi Hank_Dogs
thanks for the time you took to reply and I really appreciate your opinion, tbh I don’t know much about the Greek Health service.
i agree, i don’t think the NHS would do much about it, my best approach is a private Neurologist who is willing to take a look at the case and maybe give an opinion or prescribe a treatment that could help him.
any names of good doctors spring to mind, please?
once again, thanks for the help.

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Sorry, no I don’t know the names of any good Drs/ consultants who do private work. I’m in Scotland and all my medical needs have been dealt with under NHS Scotland.

Could your friend get a second, private opinion in Greece ( I know nothing at all about the Greek health service and recognise that I could be talking nonsense)