I am under instructions from jinasc to post the information in the statement by the NHS about the NHS recipients of Honours in the New Year Honours List:
"Professor Bhaskar Dasgupta, Consultant Rheumatologist, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, was awarded an MBE for services to people with giant cell arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica"
wonderful. Thank you
Finally some good news! Thank you. Auguri. xx
Maybe it will help highlight those conditions too!!
Excellent news!
Very good!
Marvellous. A good start to 2025.
Oh that’s marvellous!
Good for him .... and good for us, too, I hope. Happy New Year, all.
Oh thats Great news.
Well deserved and a boost hopefully to wider awareness and support for our beleaguered little community.
That's so encouraging and wonderful recognition for both Prof Dasgupta and the conditions of PMR/GCA.
Great news and thank you.
That is wonderful news. I know when I was Dx with GCA in 2019....I'd have been completely in the dark without his work and the vibrant NHS research headed by him (I understand) and the goldmine of Health Unlocked....sharing information and support. 💞💞💞💞
Absolutely brilliant and very well deserved.
Well done him!Maybe a way for our diseases to be put in the public domain,and recognition for all his hard work!x🏅
Yes, so well-deserved! I was diagnosed by Professor Dasgupta with PMR and later on large vessel vasculitis. His dedication and lack of hesitation to involve the hospital multiple-disciplinary team was exemplary. Even now, in ‘retirement’, he works tirelessly to improve outcomes by continuing his life’s work in research.
Thanks 123-go for your tribute to Dr Dasgupta. I watched a You tube of his and was not so convinced with some of the things he said about diagnosing patients and the guidance he gave to other clinicians. I found Dr Hughes You Tubes much more encouraging but your first hand report about Dr Dasgupta has put things right in my mind. He deserves his award.
My husband was also a Bengali like him so I can imagine he had to work hard to get his research and views recognised and valued in the early days. Let's hope Dr Hughes gets an award next time too. PMR needs more research and understanding all over the world.
A hopeful and pain free New Year to everyone with successful tapering of course.
I speak from my own experience, Motida 🙂. Some of us may feel a rapport with certain doctors while others have their own preferences. In my case, the trust I felt gave me confidence and I didn’t ever feel the need to doubt decisions made for me. 🌻
Thanks for sharing. It is always good to hear or read members' actual experiences. Thank goodness you had the opportunity to see him and to go forward with his treatments and advice. In saying that, we all benefit too, from our two superb and ever generous advisors on our forum and all the others who share their knowledge - pro bono. We are so fortunate.
brilliant news
That's fantastic news. Well deserved. Thank goodness the illness has finally been acknowledged 👏
Brilliant news for physicians and sufferers.
that’s great news and well deserved
Excellent!
That's such good news!
Excellent! 😀👍
can we send congratulations from all of us please Pro. ( probably already done it)
He certainly deserves it.
That's excellent recognition for his work. Thank you for letting us know.
Wonderful news and well deserved recognition.
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Excellent thank you. It is listed in the London Gazette on page 18 which can be viewed on line using the link above.
Brilliant .
Wonderful news and a very worthy recipient - congratulations!
Richly deserved!
wonderful news! Well deserved!
That's fabulous. Thanks for posting
Very Good News. Hopefully we’ve got a bigger place on the map
Congratulations, good news for all of us.
Glad someone genuinely working for the good of others has been awarded. Excellent.
Good to know that someone who richly deserves the honour has received it.
Thank you. Wonderful news.
Great news! It's good to know that these awards are still given to those few who actually go above and beyond the basic requirements of their job. Truly deserved.
Fantastic news and well deserved!!
Thrilling progress!
he should have been knighted
Fantastic! So well deserved!
Wonderful news .
I just wish we had a Prof Dasgupta in Sydney. It sounds like a well deserved reward.
You have a Claire Owen, in Melbourne I think. Though more PMR-directed.
I don't know of a good one in Sydney. My rheumie went 'academic' to teach.
Luckily most who do that in the UK do half and half to keep up-to-date. If you were already with them it isn't too bad - tough if you are new to the game.
I liked and trusted him. His replacement was useless and didn't like me questioning him. He seemed to be fresh out of university so relying on GP atm. GP has agreed to be my rheumie and has read up accordingly. I see him this afternoon finally after my GCA flare.
Digressing - did you see the report on the migration of bats from the Bodensee and where they get to?
Excellent. Just the sort of person that these awards should be going to. Well done.
Appointment with Professor Dasgupta
Dr Dasgupta
