Practical guides on proactive medicine, on caring for a sick child, and on what changes when a doctor watches your health across the year. Written by me, not a content team.
Proactive medicine
A long appointment, in person, ending in a written health strategy rather than a folder of numbers. What gets measured, why each thing is measured, and what you do with the result.
Read →The NHS treats illness competently and does not have the capacity to manage health. The difference is continuity, trend data, and time, which are the three things general practice has lost.
Read →Counting how many appointments you will use is the wrong test. The better question is what it costs to find something late, and what a doctor who knows you before anything is wrong can do about it.
Read →A health check is a snapshot sold as a product. Management is a doctor watching a trend and acting on it. The difference decides whether the money is well spent.
Read →A single result is a snapshot read against a population, not against you. Why trend beats a one-off test, and what interval bloods actually buy.
Read →There are two private GP markets and they price differently, because they sell different things. One sells you an appointment. The other sells you a year of managed health.
Read →Family care
The signs that mean a child needs to be seen today, the ones that mean 999, and the ones that are safe to watch at home. Written plainly, so you can answer the question yourself.
Read →The honest comparison is not membership against the NHS. It is a same-day assessment from a doctor who knows your child, against a two-week wait or four hours in a walk-in centre.
Read →A single doctor promising to answer at three in the morning is promising something he cannot deliver safely. What I offer instead, and why it is narrower and better.
Read →Testing and diagnostics
Hormone health
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