Thread 11: To feel disappointed after reading this in The Observer about the author and her husband from The Salt Path book and film?

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The Observer The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...
2nd Observer https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-whats-in-the-book-and-what-the-observer-has-found
3rd Observer https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-salt-path-the-truth-behind-the-blockbuster-book-video
4th Observer ‘I felt I was being gaslit’ – the landlord who helped Ray...
Raynor Winn/Sally Walker's statement Raynor Winn
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New posters welcome. It would be helpful to read at least the four Observer items above before posting. There are currently 10 items on The Observer website The real Salt Path | The Observer

To all - Please be extremely cautious when it comes to naming or implicating people and addresses not in the public eye or with no direct connection to the story, and around the understandable health speculations, especially where details are unclear or still emerging. Please do not engage with visitors who seem to have their own agenda and seek to derail. Avoid @'ing and quoting them as - from experience - this will only encourage them back to the threads. We have done amazingly well together for ten very interesting, very serious and very silly threads so far. I can't be here as much as I'd like so all help with keeping our discussion walking along in a healthy and civil fashion is very welcome.

No saltiness. Keep to the path.

Does stolen fudge taste better?

Should have said that applies in civil and criminal cases. Don't know about family court.

Googled "RD/IH hospital" and AI Overview gives Rapid Diagnostic/Investigation and Help.

RD/IH could be initials of consultant / initials of typist / secretary - that would follow the pattern of other NHS letters I have received

It would be county court not family. You’re right that would indicate it would be your honour, and the barrister would know that too!

In magistrates it might be sir though but I would have thought debt enforcement like this would be county court?

@Catwith69lives here you go. Archive link and screen shot of the magazine page...it was published in the Spring 2020 edition.

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220625235653/acnr.co.uk/book-review/the-salt-path/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/52rbmz2n

<a class="break-all" href="//[https://web.archive.org/web/20220625235653/acnr.co.uk/book-review/the-salt-path/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20220625235653/acnr.co.uk/book-review/the-salt-path/]

The web version was removed from the ACNR journal site not long after the story broke.

The RD could also stand for Radiology Department for example.
It would be helpful to see another letter from that hospital with that layout to see if what is written in that place are doctor's initials or an abbreviation for a particular department or whatever. Until then this is a bit speculative.
Also the tone/content of the letter and of the review are extremely different, which makes me doubt they are from the same person.

Great. Many thanks.

Does anyone else find Sally Walker's speech quite difficult to follow? I hadn't really thought about it till a French friend dropped by to borrow something when I had a podcast featuring her playing on a speaker. I think she has a problem with rhotacism (pronouncing /r/ as /w/) but also pronounces /l/ oddly.

That, combined with the way she takes little, gasping in-breaths as she speaks means I really have to concentrate hard.

(I don't mean this unpleasantly, obviously, I just hadn't realised until my friend said that in fact I don't find her easy to follow.)

The letter was dictated (I think) and also very different writing contexts so I wouldn't think tone comparison would tell us much here.

I assumed that the 2019 letter is from RD to IH.

My own letters went out 'my initials/my secretary's initials' and that would be my assumption here @Catwith69lives . We can only assume however.

Oh really, I didn't notice that when reading the letter. Wonder why they didn't include that letter then

Did you not mean to tag @Catwith69lives?

ETA - see you've changed it already!

Yes that's what I thought, I see so it was the later letter, that makes sense. Thought I was going a bit doolally there!

I must say that Raynor Winn (et al!) provide a compelling...

From Rhys Davies' review of TSP. I assume that the 'et al!' refers to Tim Walker and suggests to me some familiarity.

Just re-reading the 2019 medical letter. Is it just me, or does it appear that some of it is not revealed? it seems to be cut off before the end

Mistakes were made!

The dead ewe was my first eh???moment..so glaringly fabricated imo.

In that case a doctor who is very sceptical of TW's CBD diagnosis because of the stability of the condition and therefore suspects it might be a genetic disorder in October 2019, would then go on to write a gushing review about the healing power of walking against CBD in Spring 2020, about a patient he strongly suspected not to have CBD just half a year earlier?

There is a second page. It is on SalRay’s website. That is one thing she isn’t hiding!

The 2013 CBD diagnosis described in TSP is critical imo.

Either it occurred in 2013, as described in TSP or it occurred in 2015 after the walk was completed. If the former, then surely RW would have stated in her rebuttal letter - " I categorically deny the allegations in the Observer that I misrepresented Moth's CBD diagnosis and disease progression in TSP. The original diagnosis and neurologist's letter was mislaid due to the harrowing and disruptive events which occurred at that time as described in TSP. However, I have applied to the NHS to send me a copy of the letter, which I will upload onto my website, when I receive it."

However, she doesn't and in the 4 weeks since the Observer article was published, no such letter has been produced to back up the events described in TSP.

At this point, disappointed readers are bound to draw their own conclusions....

Just rereading the 2015 letter which starts “he has little in the way of personal medical background”. If he had a two year terminal diagnosis in 2013 surely it would include that? As it also refers to negative tests in 2011.

Is it? I can see
2 pages (1 of 3 and 2 of 3) dated 2015
1 page 2019 (ends without sign off)
1 page 2025

You called?

I assumed he meant that there are other compelling cases for the benefits of physical therapy.

Yes - there are many comments about this in reviews of the LL audiobook.