General Medicine
Our dedicated General Practitioners (GP) specialize in General Medicine, ensuring that you and your family receive seamless medical care tailored to your unique needs at every stage of life. As your first point of contact, our physicians are readily available to provide the best possible evidence-based care for you. Whether its addressing minor or acute ailments, managing routine illnesses or offering support for chronic conditions, our team is committed to your overall well-being. Your health is our priority and we take care in delivering comprehensive and compassionate primary healthcare services in the field of general practice.
Our General Medicine Service Includes:
Consultation with Our General Practitioners
The consultation allows you the opportunity to talk about your symptoms and what may be concerning you. Our doctors will listen carefully and may ask you further questions to help find out what may be the problem. They will then examine you in order to make a diagnosis. A treatment plan will then be discussed with you and if needed medicines will be given to you or prescribed to treat your condition. Sometimes further tests such as blood tests, ECG (heart recording) and swabs may be needed to make the correct diagnosis and we have highly qualified staff and facilities in our primary care health center.
Acute and Chronic Condition Management
Acute conditions are those that come on quickly such as fevers, allergic reactions, chest infections, urinary infections or cuts, bruises and so on. They need attention immediately to get you better. Our general practitioners are knowledgeable and well equipped to manage such conditions.
Chronic diagnoses include such conditions as Diabetes, Hypertension, Thyroid disorders, raised Cholesterol, Asthma and Heart disease to name but a few. Our General Practitioners will provide individualized care and treatment plans, advise you on managing and living with these conditions and prescribe any long term medications you may need. They will also discuss and guide you through any lifestyle changes that might be required.
Chronic diagnoses include such conditions as Diabetes, Hypertension, Thyroid disorders, raised Cholesterol, Asthma and Heart disease to name but a few. Our General Practitioners will provide individualized care and treatment plans, advise you on managing and living with these conditions and prescribe any long term medications you may need. They will also discuss and guide you through any lifestyle changes that might be required.
Wellness Checks and Lab Investigations
An annual wellness check is a really good investment in your health. It can be thought of as a screening process to identify any potential abnormalities early so that corrective action can be taken to prevent potential future serious illness. Our doctors will do a detailed consultation with you and ask some important questions that allow them to explore your lifestyle and any needs that you may have. They will then carry out a full clinical examination followed by an ECG and blood tests to pick up any abnormalities. Following this the doctor will present the results of any tests and investigations to you and explain what they mean. Most importantly the doctors will then advise you on what treatments and lifestyle changes might be necessary so that you can lead the healthiest life possible.
Looking After the Whole Family
General Practitioners are also known as Family Doctors. They take a holistic approach to healthcare and will work with you as a whole family. Your age, gender and family history are relevant to your health and any screening tests that might be required. As your primary care provider our General Practitioners will address and serve the needs of all generations of your family while at the same time setting health goals, provide individualized care and treatment plans and monitor your health with regular checks.
General Medicine FAQs:
A General Practitioner (GP) also known as a Family Doctor is a qualified medical doctor who specializes in General Medicine. They will see patients of all ages from babies to the elderly. They are your first point of contact and can see and treat a wide range of medical conditions. They will manage acute (sudden onset conditions) and chronic (long term conditions) illnesses. They also provide preventative care to keep you healthy and stop you developing disease.
General Practitioners see a very wide range of presentations. These would include such conditions as coughs/ colds/sore throat, earache, infections anywhere in the body, chest pain, stomach upset, diarrhea and vomiting, dehydration, joint and muscle pains, sprains, backache, tiredness and fatigue, sleep problems, headaches and migraines, skin rashes, lumps and bumps and cuts that might need suturing.
Feel free to discuss anything that is concerning you. Sometimes we may feel embarrassed but everything you discuss with the doctor is always in complete confidence and doctors are used to seeing many different presentations. Its important to provide as much information as you can so that the doctor can make the right diagnosis and therefore help you in the best way possible.
If you can, bring any medicines that you are taking or make a list of medicines and the doses. If you have had any tests in the past in another clinic then try and bring the results of these to the consultation.
If the doctor thinks that you need any blood tests then they can be done here in the clinic. We can get the results back usually within 24 hrs and often the same day. Our doctors will call to discuss the results with you and advise you further.
An ECG which is short for electrocardiogram is a special test that records the electrical activity of the heart and is a very good way to check the heart’s function and see if there are any signs of serious disease. It is a straightforward painless procedure that can be done right here in the clinic.
Sometimes a doctor might decide that you need an injection to give you medicines or that you might need some painkillers or fluids that need to be given directly into your bloodstream (intravenous, IV or commonly called a drip). We have the facilities and equipment to give this in our clinic.
After carefully assessing you there may be times that our General Practitioners think that you need further specialist tests or that you need the input of a specialist or consultant.
Fortunately we have Specialists and Consultants in Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Obstetrics + Gynecology and Psychiatry that can see you.
For any other specialties we work in partnership with Kings College Hospital Dubai and can directly refer you to get an early appointment often the same or very next day.
We partner with a large number of health insurance providers. All you need to do is simply check with our reception staff for the level of coverage.
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