Your last blood test was normal. Good. Bring it.
And every one before it. A good result tells you where you are today. It does not tell you where you came from, and it does not tell you where you are heading. There are three things it cannot show.
A single result is a photograph. Ten years of results on one line is the film. We digitise every record you bring, convert it into the same units, and read the trend and the moment the trend changes.
Eight results. Every one of them “normal”. Rising six years in a row.
Read twice.
A laboratory’s range is built to flag disease, not to show what is optimal for you. We read every result against both. Inside the first and outside the second is where early change shows.
The advanced markers.
The biomarkers that say most about your next thirty years are not yet in common use in Romania: ApoB, Lp(a), fasting insulin, homocysteine, the omega-3 index.
Do you know your ApoB?
Do you know your Lp(a)?
Do you know your muscle mass, in kilograms?
Most people see a doctor when something is wrong. Then they meet the other problem: the system.
A headache that will not go. A cough in its third week. A result nobody explained. Whom do you call? Which specialty do you need? Who is the best doctor for it? Who can see you this week? Which tests should be done first? Where do you go afterwards?
At Prime, you do not need the answer to any of those questions. You make one phone call.
Members reach their doctor directly on weekdays 08:00–20:00, by phone or video, with a first response within 60 minutes. Exclusive members at any hour, within ten minutes. Outside those hours a nurse and a duty doctor triage for every member, never charged.
Your Personal Doctor decides what needs doing. Often advice is enough. Sometimes a test. Sometimes a specialist, and then the right one, chosen by someone who knows both the field and you.
We make the appointment and send your history and the medical question ahead, so the specialist knows you before you walk in.
After the consultation your doctor reads the results with you, explains what comes next, and coordinates the next step.
We don’t send you into the system. We guide you through it.
In an emergency, call 112 first; your doctor is told and follows you through it. Coordination is included in every membership; consultations and outside services are billed on one itemised monthly invoice.
A good doctor can help when something goes wrong. Yours should also know what was happening before it did.
That is why your Personal Doctor does not see you only when you call. He holds your history. He has read your old results. He follows your biomarkers, knows what has changed since last year and since five years ago, and sees what in the plan is working and what is not.
He does not only know where you are. He knows where you came from, and follows where you are heading.
Patients carried by a Prime′ Clinic Personal Doctor.
Patients carried by a typical private GP in Romania.
Not for the luxury of more attention. For continuity. Early signals appear only when the same doctor measures the same patient, year after year, and notices what has moved. That takes 60–90 minute consultations and a monthly review of your numbers. At 2,000 patients, no such doctor can exist. At about 100, one can.
A check-up is a photograph of a moment. A twenty-year relationship with one doctor is the film of your health. Ahead of what national screening would ever offer you, because it is built on you, not on the average.
You review your company’s numbers every month. Someone should be doing the same for yours.
We do not promise you more years. No honest doctor can.
We promise what we can control. Three things, and each one follows from the pages before.
Properly, every year, for what can be found early, with the time and the tests it takes to find it.
Plainly what we find, and what it means for you. No euphemism and no alarm.
A critical result means a call from a doctor within the hour. If it is serious, your doctor begins the same working day, and you are not the one coordinating.
A finding
Your doctor
and the medical team
The right specialist
Appointments arranged
Your records, sent ahead
An independent second opinion
Treatment, in Romania or abroad
They stay with you through treatment, wherever it takes place.
We are building an international network of partner clinics, and coordinate care abroad as well as at home.
Medicine decides the rest. Whatever happens, someone who knows you is already handling it.