Deans' stroke musings: Man who suffered stroke not given treatment because it was 'outside hospital office hours'

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Sunday, September 7, 2025

Man who suffered stroke not given treatment because it was 'outside hospital office hours'

If we had ANY COMPETENCE AT ALL in the stroke medical world, they would have 100% recovery protocols regardless of presentation to the hospital. They would have figured out EXACTLY HOW TO CREATE NEUROPLASTICITY AND NEUROGENESIS ON DEMAND!

Leaders would create and execute a strategy for 100% recovery for all! Yeah, that is a BHAG(Big Hairy Audacious or (Assed) Goal, but leaders tackle such goals that survivors want! Are you leaders or not? Hospital leadership completely failed this person. The incompetent board of directors needs to be fired!

Man who suffered stroke not given treatment because it was 'outside hospital office hours'

A man who had a stroke says he has been left immobile after he failed to get the right treatment - because it happened outside hospital "office hours".

Graham McGowan, 53, claims the time he fell ill prevented him from accessing much-needed care.

He suffered a stroke and was rushed to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) to seek urgent treatment.

Doctors carried out a brain scan which revealed a blood clot and they advised he should be treated with a thrombectomy - a procedure to remove blood clots in a large artery.

However, Graham, from Aboyne, Scotland, was told he would be unable to receive the procedure, because he arrived at hospital outside "office hours" at 9pm.

Sadly, ARI's closest specialist thrombectomy hub, in Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, only offers the procedure from 9am-7pm, Monday to Friday.

Graham, a former performance improvement consultant, trail runner and skier, was instead treated at ARI with thrombolysis, a drug which is used to try to disperse clots and help restore the blood supply to the brain.

Graham remains totally immobile on his left side, and is sharing his story in an attempt to raise awareness of the importance of 24/7 access to thrombectomy services in Scotland.