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10th January – Belonging to your Community
Be part of your community I have spent today working at our local covid vaccination clinic; we have been vaccinating our over-80-year-old population, and health and care staff. Other members of the team went out to local care homes to provide vaccinations for the care home residents. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of such a great team of dedicated professionals. It is also lovely to be part of the local community, it is one of the best bits of being a GP. Whilst I was there today to give vaccines, I had the opportunity to meet so many different patients and hear their stories, and I was awed…
Just walk a bit more… and a bit more…
” I did just what you said Doctor, I just started walking a but more and kept going and I feel so much better for it. In fact, I’m up to five miles, two or three times a week now!” One of the best parts of my job is when my patients come back to me and say things like this.This patient is a superstar, when I first started encouraging her to keep active she had just been diagnosed with a long term condition which will limit her ability to exercise, and at the time she was unable to to manage to get to my consulting room from the car…
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10th January – Belonging to your Community
