Constance Idowu arrived at her six-month review with three questions, all of them specific, all of them derived from her own data. Her cardiologist describes it as the best appointment of that clinic.
Acute care was never the weak point. The ambulance was fast, the intervention was routine, and discharge came in five days. What almost failed was everything after.
Rehab in a machinery shed
Uploads were reviewed twice weekly. The calls that followed were rarely about anything dramatic — a heart rate recovery that had drifted the wrong way across four sessions, that sort of thing.
A patient who can see their own trace asks a different quality of question. It changes what the twenty minutes are for.
Dr. Yusuf Marchetti, cardiology
Back to work
Return to work was staged over eleven weeks rather than signed off in one appointment, with the occupational health assessment done before the first shift rather than after the first problem.
“I used to say I’d been fine, mostly,” she says. “Now I can say which eleven days I wasn’t.”
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