The clinic exudes a great working environment – and that naturally rubs off on the patients. Here you feel incredibly welcome, and the treatment is super professional and top-notch.
Personally, I went through a looooong, messy diagnostic process in the public system, but luckily ended up – albeit quite by chance – getting the right eyes on me, from a very competent and friendly doctor. However, the waiting time guarantee could not be met for the surgery that needed to be performed (Mohs surgery). So I was able to use the Danish extended free choice of hospital scheme and was referred by the Capital Region of Denmark (Region Hovedstaden) to Skin Cancer Clinic in Nordhavn.
I have now had three operations at the clinic and have received fantastic treatment every time. Here you are seen as a whole person – and not, as I have unfortunately often experienced, as a device with a fault that needs to be fixed. For a former cancer patient, it is incredibly meaningful to be met with so much empathy and to be seen and heard as a whole person. Just being told that they consider removing head hair during a procedure to be an assault is a great reassurance.
If I had accepted another form of treatment and not had Mohs surgery, which is performed to a top professional standard here, I would have been left with large bald patches on my head. Now my hair is preserved, and I've had some impressive reconstructions of my scalp after the removal of skin cancer caused by radiotherapy.
BIG thanks and gratitude to all the staff. This is an important role that is being filled here, when the public system can't keep up and is far from able to provide the treatment within the waiting time guarantee.
Pernille Warberg
