A different kind
of doctor.

I trained in conventional medicine. I qualified as a GP. I practised exactly the way I was taught — and I was good at it. But after several years in general practice, a pattern became impossible to ignore.

Patients kept coming back. Not because they weren’t being treated — but because they weren’t being investigated. Standard blood panels were returning “normal” results for people who were clearly unwell. The system I’d been trained in was excellent at acute care and crisis management. It was far less equipped to explain why a 38-year-old executive was exhausted despite sleeping eight hours, or why a 42-year-old mother’s thyroid medication wasn’t resolving her symptoms.

I started looking for answers in the places my training hadn’t covered. Functional medicine gave me the testing frameworks — comprehensive hormone panels, advanced gut microbiome analysis, organic acids testing — that revealed what standard pathology missed. Medical acupuncture and meridian assessment gave me an entirely different lens through which to understand the body’s regulatory systems.

The integration of these disciplines wasn’t a philosophical decision. It was a clinical one. Patients who had been cycling through the conventional system for years were getting better — measurably, reproducibly — when I combined rigorous Western diagnostics with functional and meridian-based approaches.

That is now how I practise. Every patient receives the full diagnostic toolkit — not just the tools that one system considers sufficient. I investigate until I find the root cause. Then I build a protocol that addresses it from multiple angles simultaneously.