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Notes from the clinic
Written by whichever of the six had something worth saying that month. No sponsored posts, no supplements, and nothing we would not tell you across the desk.
Notes
Transforming healthcare with care
We deliver advanced patient solutions
Clinic notes
How family involvement improves recovery
Patients whose relatives sit in on the consultation take their medication more reliably. Here is how we try to make that easy rather than awkward.
14 July 2026
Urgent care
Emergencies: what happens when you arrive
Triage, the order we see people in, and why the person who came in after you was seen first. Knowing the sequence makes the wait considerably shorter.
2 July 2026
Public health
Making private care affordable in Accra
What NHIS covers, what it does not, and the four things worth paying for out of pocket if you are choosing where your money goes.
20 June 2026
Everything else
The rest of the notes
Clinic notes
Malaria: when a test is worth it and when it is not
A rapid test costs less than the antimalarial and settles the question in fifteen minutes. Treating on suspicion is how resistance happens.
6 June 2026
Chronic care
Blood pressure readings you can trust at home
Half the readings patients bring us were taken wrong. Five minutes sitting still, feet on the floor, arm at heart height, and the cuff on bare skin.
22 May 2026
Under-fives
The immunisation schedule, and what happens if you miss one
Nothing has to start again. Bring the weighing card and we will work out what is outstanding and catch it up in the right order.
9 May 2026
Clinic notes
Why we will not give you antibiotics for that cough
Most of them are viral, most of them clear in ten days, and the ones that do not are the reason antibiotics need to still work when you need them.
24 April 2026
Travel health
Yellow fever, and everything else a border will ask for
The certificate takes ten days to become valid. Book the appointment three weeks before you fly, not three days.
11 April 2026
Chronic care
HbA1c in plain language
One number that describes three months. Here is what it measures, what a good one looks like and why the fasting glucose you did last week is not the same thing.
28 March 2026
These are notes, not advice
Everything here is written by one of the six doctors on the bench, and none of it is a substitute for being examined. If something on this page sounds like you, that is a reason to book rather than a reason not to.
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