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.

  • Jan
    25

    Heart failure

    Dr Heena Patel | 0 comments

    Why a failure in basic listening skills could have been a killer.

  • Oct
    09

    Joined up at the hip?

    Dr Heena Patel | 0 comments

    Integrated health has to begin with healthcare staff who talk to each other. 

  • Oct
    09

    More and more about less and less?

    Leah Desmond | 0 comments

    Medical student Leah Desmond on the importance of broad as well as deep medical knowledge. 

  • Aug
    20

    Ten minutes

    Dr Heena Patel | 3 comments

     Dr Heena Patel shows her student how to be concise in a consultation.

  • Jun
    26

    Ghettoes medicine

    Dr Heena Patel | 0 comments

    There are many pockets in Nottingham today where there is evident community breakdown, and a struggle to maintain core medical services.

  • May
    06

    Spring happens

    Dr Heena Patel | 0 comments

    Healing comes with the spring for Dr Patel's patients.

  • Mar
    30

    Learning to care

    Dr Heena Patel | 1 comment

    '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.

  • Feb
    27

    'Something doctor'

    Dr Heena Patel | 5 comments

    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.

Dr Heena Patel's blog