PRACTICE PHILOSOPHY

'Dedicated to the Provision of Quality Healthcare"

East Adelaide Healthcare is a group of doctors with a common philosophy and commitment to Family Medicine.

They combine the caring aspects of traditional General Practice with the knowledge and skills of modern family medicine. They provide a complete and personal approach to a patient's medical needs with each doctor exercising full autonomy in his or her decisions that affect the clinical care of each patient. The doctors recognise that health and illness are influenced by lifestyle (such as nutrition, exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption) and a range of social factors, including relationships with other people.

One of the main objectives of the Practice is to encourage the maintenance of good health in patients through preventative medicine and active health promotion. To do this, the doctors:

• Allow sufficient time for consultations
• Confer with each other and specialists and other health professionals as indicated
• Keep their medical knowledge, skills and practice up to date through continuing medical education

The Practice endeavors to encourage continuity of care of all patients by providing the best possible treatment, using the most up-to-date and best proven methods, materials and equipment, emphasising the prevention of disease as a higher ideal than the actual treatment of it.