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Family Medical Centre Albir<br />
For all of your health needs the Family<br />
Medical Centre offer consultation<br />
and diagnostic services for all health<br />
problems. Friendly and helpful the<br />
service is fast and efficient getting<br />
you back on the road to recovery. We<br />
can often take our body for granted<br />
some of us try to look after ourselves<br />
by eating healthier and doing regular<br />
exercise. But even for the fittest our<br />
body can often let us down without<br />
reason and it is not always because<br />
we have not been looking after<br />
ourselves. We all know that keeping fit<br />
and watching our diet are both very<br />
important of course but if we compare<br />
our body to any machine or our car we<br />
would not expect to leave it to chance<br />
before having some break down.<br />
Regular service, oil change and<br />
diagnostic testing would ensure that<br />
our machines and cars that are so<br />
important to our daily lives keep on<br />
running without any problems or risk!<br />
So why do we not have our own body<br />
regularly serviced and maintained just<br />
like our MOT or ITV on a motor car? Its<br />
www.vistacostablanca.com<br />
really quite shocking to think most of us<br />
do not carry out a regular health check,<br />
so here is what I found out at the Family<br />
Medical Centre in Albir.<br />
The air of the Health Check I was told<br />
is to maintain early detection of any<br />
health problems, this may save lives<br />
and help cure a problem before it is to<br />
advanced. Early diagnosis often means<br />
simpler treatments and more chance<br />
to combat the problem and cure it.<br />
Waiting until we have any symptoms<br />
or signs of a problem is all too easy for<br />
us all to think in this way, but when the<br />
reality hits home we would soon say<br />
that health checks are a good idea.<br />
So here is what is on offer, for men and<br />
women a complete health check your<br />
very own MOT/ITV<br />
First Appointment:<br />
• Extended consultation with nurse<br />
• Review of patient and family medical<br />
history<br />
• Lifestyle assessment<br />
• Discussion of any particular health<br />
concerns<br />
• Urine Dipstick Test<br />
• Blood Pressure<br />
• BMI assessment<br />
• Cervical Smear (ladies)<br />
• E.C.G. (heart trace) to be read by<br />
<strong>Card</strong>iologist<br />
• Blood Tests- Full Blood Count,<br />
Glucose (diabetes screen), Lipid Profile<br />
(Cholesterol screen), Liver Function<br />
Test, Kidney Function Test, Thyroid<br />
Function Test, Prostate Screening<br />
(men)<br />
Second Appointment:<br />
Extended Consultation with GP (family<br />
doctor) for physical examination and<br />
review of results and findings.<br />
Total Cost 298.00 euro paid over two<br />
weeks – <strong>Vista</strong> <strong>Card</strong> holders get 10%<br />
discount. After my visit to talk with<br />
Amanda and Dawn who run the<br />
centre we decided that our readers<br />
would benefit from this feature telling<br />
you about the Health Check, we<br />
recommend it and especially as so<br />
recently we have heard in the news of<br />
a number of sports professionals who<br />
have later discovered health problems,<br />
so early detection is so important.<br />
Scan Now<br />
for your<br />
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Direct to your<br />
phone and start<br />
saving money!!
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