Helt Vanua GP Practice.

16/02/2026

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12/02/2026

Remember that I'll be in Santo soon. Contact me for a skin check. Cheers.
Dr Virginie Jouan.

12/02/2026

Prevention is the key.

How to protect yourself from Nipah virus?

🦠 There is currently no specific medicine or vaccine for Nipah virus in people or animals.

⏱️ Early diagnosis and timely supportive care can greatly improve chances of recovery.

Remember: simple everyday actions can help prevent infection!

11/02/2026

Bonjour à tous.
Another story for you today.
In fact, again, 2 stories for one man again.
A delightful, retired professor, was just coming for his repeats for his blood pressure medications. Gladly I would say, because just repeating the medicines without examining him, would have been a mistake. I asked him if he was experiencing any palpitations, chest pain, dizziness and he answered that he was sometimes short of breath quite easily and a bit dizzy; just sometimes when standing for some time. I sent him to a cardiologist quickly.
The cardiologist found at the echocardiogram that the patient had cardiac failure, and gave him some heart medication with some aspirin.
Some months later, at a routine blood test, I found that he had iron deficiency anaemia. We investigated; he had a colonoscopy and a cancerous polyp was found in his bowels; it has bled and caused the anaemia. He had a successful surgery with some chemotherapy with a great outcome.
We discussed it again later and how lucky he was that the aspirin caused the bleed and revealed his bowel cancer at an early stage.

Consulting a doctor, regularly, allows you to address symptoms that sound minimal to you but could mean a lot to the doctor. Routine blood tests , ECG and skin checks should be part of your health care.

Echocardiography, to detect any abnormality in your heart anatomy or function. this is one by a cardiologist or a trained technician.

09/02/2026

Don’t think Measles is benign. Follow the advice.

can be fatal.

Do you know its symptoms?
🔴 Rash that starts on the face and spreads over the body
🔴 Fever
🔴 Cough
🔴 Red and watery eyes
🔴 Small white spots inside the cheeks

Seek health care if you suspect you or your child has measles: https://zurl.co/2ilGc

08/02/2026

Looking forward to seeing you in Santo.
Books are open for GP consultations, skin checks, ECG.
You are the actors of your health but we all sometimes need guidance.

03/02/2026

Bonjour à tous!
Ready for another story on why you should look after yourselves and listen to your body and mind?
Let’s talk about a very special patient, in his 50s, cherished by his wife after he suffered meningitis, which left him with aphasia years before, means he couldn’t speak any more in a way we could understand him.
His wife called me at my practice in France one day and asked if I could do by chance an emergency home visit for her husband. She felt something was wrong. He was standing well, walking well but had been hitting the door frames every time he was passing a door.
She was kind enough to bring him to the practice as I agreed to see him straight away.
He looked his normal self, but I noticed straight away that he was not seeing me if I was on his right side, when checking his blood pressure. I investigated further checking his vision, and I came to suspect a stroke, with a very particular vision disturbance: Homonymous hemianopsia. This means he lost his visual field on the same side of both eyes.
I advised the patient and his wife that I needed to call the ambulance straight away as this could worsen and lead to a more severe stroke.
The ambulance came, found the patient quite well in himself and questioned my diagnosis and the need to take him in the ambulance to go to the emergency department. I insisted for him to be transported and luckily, they agreed. The patient started convulsing in the ambulance and they had to sedate him on the way and intubate him.

He gladly recovered to enjoy his life as before.
Take care. Be safe.

Homonymous hemianopsia (HH) (or homonymous hemianopia) is hemianopic visual field loss on the same side of both eyes.

01/02/2026

If you liked my last post about medical stories, come to my page and read the next ones..

01/02/2026

Sometimes a GP doesn't need to know everything for sure from the beginning. He just needs to be especially suspicious in front of the weirdest symptoms.
That's how, soon after I started my GP practice in France, after working as an Emergency physician for 6 years, I met a new patient, in his 60s, very committed to his previous GP who just retired.
As part of my GP routine, I checked his blood pressure and listened to his chest.
Despite no symptoms at all, as he was just coming for a vaccine, I detected some abnormalities as some "creps" sounds in one lobe of his lungs. I insisted on him getting a chest x-ray, which came back with pneumonia, despite no cough. I treated him.
He came back some weeks later, with a weird feeling on top of his left shoulder, not really pain, just a bit sore maybe. He said it was crawling a bit to his neck and thought this might have been some musculo-skeletal pain but it didn't sound right to me. Something you can't name, you have to investigate to be safe.
He went to the emergency department and was diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction: a heart attack.
When he came back to me the third time, he warned me and said: this time, doc, don't find me anything,. We laughed and he stayed my patient for 14 years until I decided to move to Australia.

Just to tell you that you have to take care of yourselves and address your symptoms, even what sounds not too sinister to you, to a GP.

When in Santo, I can perform ECGs and examine you.
You just have to book.
I have 30 years experience as a GP, but I am also an Emergency care Physician.

31/01/2026

Dr Virginie Jouan will be back in Santo, for face-to-face GP consultations from 24th of February 2026 until 10th of March 2026.
You can arrange health checks for yourselves, family, employees or guests.
Visits could be arranged to hotels and resorts.
Skin checks with a dermatoscope, looking for sun damage to skin cancer.
Blood pressure check, Electrocardiogram, Full clinical examination.
Francophones bienvenus.
Just send us a message if you want to know more about it.
When not in Santo, Dr Virginie Jouan is available through Telehealth for any advice you would need.


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06/01/2026

Be ready for face to face appointments. ECG available and skin cancer checks with dermatoscopy also available from 24/02/2026 until 10/03/2026 in Santo. Message me directly to arrange an appointment.
Referrals can also be done following your appointment .
Happy new year to all for 2026.
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