Primary Care Services
“In community care, listening is half the solution, and listening takes time.”
Primary Care has always been the point of reference for everyday health needs in the community.
Over the last fifty years, the landscape for such points of reference has changed from one of building long-term doctor-patient relationships to a mechanised, almost industrial way of “doing medicine.”
In today’s fast-paced clinics, practitioner-patient contact is increasingly shorter and ever more distant, with access to both private and public healthcare becoming less and less readily available.
It is more and more the case that algorithms, rather than clinical clues and cues, are followed in providing treatment plans to patients.
With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, it has in fact been proposed that many treatment decisions in modern medicine might indeed be delegated to technology.
We believe no machine can ever substitute the art of the patient-invested physician.
Our experience with people has shown us that patients need more time and care with every passing year, and not always because people feel more ill within themselves.
Rather it is the external dynamics of the human condition that are changing, and not for the better.
People feel isolated, less able to access care, less listened to, and less willing to care for themselves.
Machines cannot substitute Minds, and Primary Care with us is a meeting of minds, not just a medical meeting.
