What to expect when you visit The Health Doctors

• The Health Doctors is an integrated medical clinic where we look at your whole body functioning in dynamic equilibrium. This includes how the different parts of your physical body impact on each other as well as the impact that your mind. body, spirit and emotions have on each other and on your current state of health.
• We also combine medical expertise with first rate complementary therapies for a thorough holistic diagnosis and treatment.
• When you call to make an appointment our staff will assess your individual needs and wishes and help find the right practitioner for you.
• Once you have made an appointment a confirmation will be sent to you with a detailed health questionnaire and four day food and mood diary.
• The health questionnaire forms a very important part of your diagnosis and ongoing treatment and should therefore be filled in thoroughly and thoughtfully and bought to your appointment.
• You should record in the 4 day food diary everything that you eat and drink during this time and how this affects your mood. This gives you and the practitioner a good idea of your general day to day eating habits and should therefore be filled out on a normal 4 days preferably including a weekend day when your eating and drinking may differ slightly.
• Your first consultation will last 1 hour and during this time you and your practitioner will carefully go through the health questionnaire and food diary. You will discuss your presenting complaints, goals and any medical issues and be examined if necessary.
• You will be advised of any tests your practitioner feels you need, which will be carried out by the nurse here at The Health Doctors or you may be given a kit to carry out a test at home. For your treatment you will be advised about any dietary or lifestyle changes necessary, be given a supplement regime and/or herbal medicine and possibly a medical prescription.
• If you are looking for an overall check up of your health status and/or have a serious chronic illness we recommend seeing one of our doctors. Otherwise one of the nutritionists will be your best option in the first instance.
• If you feel you would benefit most from a thorough medical assessment as well as diet, lifestyle, exercise and supplement advice, you could see both a doctor and a nutritionist in a joint consultation. This involves seeing either Tina Lond-Caulk (nutritionist) or Sally Lomman (western herbalist and naturopath) for 1 hour plus 30mins with either Dr Denning or Dr Meuschel, with the nutritionist present.
• It is normal practise to have at least one 30min follow up after your initial consultation to see how you are progressing on the treatment plan. It is often as important as the first consultation to make adjustments in the recommended regime. It is especially important if you have had any tests, to allow the practitioner to give you the results and interpretation as this may change your original treatment prescription.
• Generally your first appointment at The Health Doctors will be with either a doctor or a nutritionist or both and then you will be referred to other practitioners in the practise such as an osteopath or homeopath. However, if you know that you only want to see a particular practitioner then you can book this as your first appointment with us.
• For chelation therapy or an intravenous nutritional infusion - an initial appointment with a doctor is always required to examine you.