GP recommendations - planning
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Topic: GP recommendations - planning
Posted By: KellyMaree
Subject: GP recommendations - planning
Date Posted: 12 December 2011 at 12:38pm
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Hi,
I'm fairly new to Wellington and don't have a current GP as of yet. Can anyone recommend a fantastic GP, especially in the realm of pregnancy as my partner and I are planning and need to have a good check up! Many thanks, Kelly |
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Posted By: Lilycat
Date Posted: 12 December 2011 at 10:26pm
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Where abouts in Wellington do you live? I used to go to the Island Bay Medical Centre and my doctor there was Arlene Smith - she was fantastic. I don't have children yet so I can't say what she'd be like during pregnancy, but she was great when I said we were TTC - sent me for the required tests, gave me a book and put me on folic acid etc.
Also Island Bay Medical seemed to be a lot cheaper than many other Wellington doctors - half the price of those in the city. That wasn't the reason I went there, but it's good to know. Good luck, I hope you find someone you like 
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Posted By: KellyMaree
Date Posted: 13 December 2011 at 8:24am
| Many thanks Lilycat, I'm actually in Island Bay so that could work! |
Posted By: Lilycat
Date Posted: 16 December 2011 at 8:59pm
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Yeah, definitely check them out. I don't know what any of the other doctors there are like, but Arlene was awesome. I couldn't find a doctor in Wellington that I liked for years and kept chopping and changing. Arlene was working at the after hours one night when I went in and I really liked her and she said she'd be happy to be my doc. I would have stayed with her if we hadn't moved.
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