What a private GP can and cannot do for you in Scotland
The honest version, including the things we will send you back to the NHS for and the things we simply cannot offer.
Health advice
Written by the clinicians who run our clinics.
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Questions we answer every week
These started as conversations in the consulting room. We wrote them down so you can read them first.
Tired all the time: the tests worth doing, and the ones that are not
A first-pass panel finds most of the treatable causes. Everything beyond it mostly generates false alarms.
Perimenopause: why your blood test was normal and you still feel awful
Over 45, hormone levels are usually the wrong test. The diagnosis is a pattern, and the pattern is recognisable.
Your back will get better. Here is roughly when.
What people want is not reassurance. It is a timescale, and a reason not to have the scan.
Travel vaccines: what to book, and how far ahead
Six to eight weeks is ideal, some courses need longer, and turning up the week before is still worth doing.
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