Dr Heena Patel's blog
Heena Patel is a full-time GP at the Peacock Surgery in Nottingham. She is a Teaching Fellow in Primary Care at the University of Nottingham, where she trained along with her husband, a fellow GP. They have together been cultivating their provision of personal, continuing, integrated and holistic patient care for nearly 25 years.
Dr Patel is also a GP Appraiser. She is a practitioner of Krishna Consciousness. Her recent sabbatical in India focused on studying the science of the soul, which facilitates her, even more than before, to appreciate and respect the individual needs of her patients at the bodily, mental, and spiritual levels as appropriate.
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Jan25
Heart failure
Why a failure in basic listening skills could have been a killer.
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Oct09
More and more about less and less?
Medical student Leah Desmond on the importance of broad as well as deep medical knowledge.
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Oct09
Joined up at the hip?
Integrated health has to begin with healthcare staff who talk to each other.
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Aug20
Ten minutes
Dr Heena Patel shows her student how to be concise in a consultation.
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Jun26
Ghettoes medicine
There are many pockets in Nottingham today where there is evident community breakdown, and a struggle to maintain core medical services.
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May06
Spring happens
Healing comes with the spring for Dr Patel's patients.
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Mar30
Learning to care
'English was my fifth language. We listened and spoke in such different styles.' Dr Patel compares her own lessons in history-taking to ones learned by her medical students today.
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Feb27
'Something doctor'
In her first blog entry, Dr Heena Patel describes how ideas of 'soul' can be integrated into general practice. She describes supporting a patient without giving medicine.