The difference with paying privately is it allows you to debate the issue with the consultant for as long as you’re willing to pay. If you are willing to pay to see him and for expensive hormone tests, he’ll probably take you and the issue more seriously. If you go to the NHS, they’ll dismiss you after the first appointment and see you as a waste of anymore of their resources.
If there are positive results form the American studies, it appears they will have to be pretty conclusive to get someone like Bouloux on our side. I saw him in 2010 when there were no sophisticated American Studies, no PFS Foundation that has raised $100K’s, no scientific publications, conferences, no litigation claims, all the reportage in the media and of course the label changes on the propecia leaflet. I knew he was stubborn but i am still shocked and angry he is still sitting on the fence as he could have been a major voice for us.
Also he is contacting patients about doing a follow up questionnaire and study, so he’ll know their lives haven’t changed in the years since he saw them. So apart from all evidence pointing towards there being some truth in the Post Finasteride Syndrome rather than a bunch of guys who have created all this through mass hysteria. You have to ask why does he think these men would put their lives on hold for so long and be so unrelenting in their effort to claim their lives back?
On on hand i thought he would have revelled in being nominated as the champion of UK PFS victims, especially having seen so many victims. Like i say, he does seem a very decent guy. But i know medical professionals in the UK have to follow a very strict and conservative code and there is definitely an unwillingness to upset the medical establishment. He’s also nearing retirement and maybe he just doesn’t want the hassle or to risk having his reputation put on the line.