by Steven Cook | May 26, 2019 | Health Guides, Surgery Preparation
Dr Steven Cook – Anaesthetist. As an anaesthetist I am the specialist doctor who manages your medical conditions to ensure you have a safe anaesthetic and post-surgery recovery. I liaise with your surgeon and other medical practitioners to ensure you are fit for...
by Michael Lawler | May 13, 2019 | Health Guides
When people engage a health professional to help them improve their body composition the term “weight loss” will be most commonly used. Often an individual will be very focused on seeing the scales go down at a certain rate until they achieve a certain weight. If the...
by Patrick Weinrauch | May 11, 2019 | Health Guides, Pain Management
The location of your pain often provides useful a useful set of clues to understanding your underlying diagnosis, but there are sometimes traps that need consideration. If you burn yourself, it’s pretty obvious what you’ve done. You can easily localise the...
by Michael Lawler | May 8, 2019 | Health Guides
Determining how much food an individual needs in order to achieve weight loss, weight stability or weight gain goals is a complex and often inaccurate area of science. It is also an area of science that is very regularly and often heatedly debated. As a result there...
by Patrick Weinrauch | Mar 10, 2019 | Health Guides
For many surgical procedures, the additional risks associated with patient obesity are well understood. Obesity has a clear association with a wide variety of complications developing shortly after surgery. Surgical site infections, respiratory complications, deep...
by Patrick Weinrauch | Feb 14, 2019 | Health Guides
You might not recognise it, but from the very first moment you set foot in your doctor’s office, your risk profile is being calculated. Many health care decisions your doctor makes relate to risk. What is the future health risk of high blood pressure for this...
