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  • Confidential Patient Record

  • Personal Details

  • Contact Details

    This information is used so that your doctor can contact you to check up on how you are recovering, share results of tests, dispense advice and prescriptions, serve accounts and from time to time, send practice updates. Please be advised that all communication is recorded and your information is held in the strictest confidence as per the The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) of 2013.
  • Biopsychosocial Information

    This information allows your doctor to take into consideration the occupational and social determinants of your health for the provision of more holistic medical care. Your answers also help avoid awkward scenarios and open the door to important conversations you may not have necessarily felt confident enough to have verbally with your doctor. As medical professionals, we are ethically and legally bound to keep all information shared by patients confidential at all times, except if compelled to disclose such information by law, or to avoid immediate harm to the patient or others.
  • This information serves to help us in emergencies and to build a family tree in mind. Marriage and religion influence various dimensions of life, including physical health and longevity, mental health and happiness, economic well-being, and the raising of children. We will never share your confidential medical information with your relatives, friends or partners unless you tell us to.

    Sexual Health:

    Asking directly about sexual health during doctor's visits is good practice as it allows patients the opportunity to share their concerns without judgement or ask questions without the embarrassment of needing to raise the topic first. Your have a right to decline answering these questions.

  • Your Next of Kin

    MEDICAL PROXY
  • You do not have to nominate a medical proxy but in an emergency, where you may be incapacitated and unable to make deicions for yourself, if you have not nominated a trusted person to stand by your side and in your stead and/or we are unable to get hold of them, then by default you leave all your decision making in the hands of the health care workers caring for you.

    Should a person declare to be your next of kin, even if they can prove they are your mother/husband/daughter etc., if you haven't nominated them by name, it becomes extremely difficult for them become involved in your medical care meaningfully due to the legal bureaucracy that safeguards your confidential medical information and in stressful emergencies this creates immense strife.

    If you attend our practice for cosmetic dermatological reasons, this is still a division of medicine and the aesthetitians work under the oversight of an onsight doctor every day. Although exceedingly rare, people can develop adverse reactions to any and all procedures including fainting, anaphylaxis (a very seriours allergic reaction), etc.

  • Having proxies act jointly means they must agree on all decisions before action can be taken. This can often lead to disagreements, misunderstandings and family fallouts, not to mention the risk of time-consuming delays in your medical care. Having them act independently means that if the person you named as Primary Medical Proxy is unavailable or unable to act on your behalf, the person you named as Alternate Medical Proxy is automatically authorised to assume the duties.


    It is often recommended to have your proxies act independently. 

  • When you are ready see the Planning an Advanced Directive Guide provided by Dignity SA. 

    Every person deserves to face their darkest moments with dignity and choice. Although death is an inevitable part of life, many of us are reluctant to face the fact that we're not going to live forever and plan for our end-of-life care. Thinking about your end-of-life choices today, even as a young person, can improve your quality of life in the future and ease the burden on your family.

    You can always change your mind on these decisions.

    This is important, any instructions you give orally will over-ride previously written instructions provided you are competent when you express them. It's a good idea to review your Advanced Directive annually.

  • Medical Insurance and Payment Details

  • Doctors’ in South Africa are free to levy fees for services rendered to patients according to what they regard as appropriate based on their overheads. Professional fees charged by doctors and the "benefits" of your individual insurance scheme package may differ. I hold no contract with any insurance scheme. There is no industry standard "medical aid rate", each scheme determines their own "level of benefit" they are prepared to pay for services rendered. 

  • Main Member Details

    If you are a dependent on another person’s medical insurance, they will receive the invoice and it is their ID number or date of birth that unlocks the invoice. If you do not provide this information your insurance scheme may deny or delay payment of your claim. Please be aware that if you are a dependent of another person's insurance, your funder may detect their details and automatically address the invoice to the main member. It may be possible for the main member to access codes that reveal confidential diagnoses about you. If you prefer this information is not sent to the Main Member of your plan, you may need to pay privately.
  • Fees for medical services are to be paid immediately. Consulations are booked for a preset amount of time which usually allows for the provision of care for one medical problem, a pro-rate fee may apply based on additional length of time, complexity and extent of advice.

    Please discuss treatment costs BEFORE services and professional fees are rendered. My professional and practice fees exclude the fees and costs charged by other health care providers, such as pathologists and radiologists such as Pathcare, Lancet, Morton & Partners etc., or other specialists and allieds, for their health services.

    My accountant will furnish you with an invoice within 10 working days of yout appointment. To assist you, we will include the Medical Insurance details your have provided us in this form on your invioce, to expediate the submission process to your funder so they can re-imburse you based on the BENEFITS they have provided for you.

    If you are a dependant, your account is automatically adressed and emailed to the main member.

    Medical schemes and their administrators do not have justifiable grounds to inform patients that a doctor’s costs are excessive according to their BENEFIT structure as there is no industry standard for doctor’s professional fees; all funders have different “medical aid rates”; and funders provide BENEFITS to patients according to the package options selected by patients whilst doctor’s charge professional fees for services rendered to patients. 

  • Terms and Conditions

    I understand all the information requested in this form, declare it to be true and consent to the disclose of this information to Dr Serena Cardoso and her clinical team who will protect this confidential data with the utmost privacy as they are legally, duty and ethically bound to protect. In addition, I have read the terms and conditions below.
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  • Thank you for the time you have taken in your day to complete this form, I know it's tedious but it serves to help me provide you with more efficient clinical care. A copy will be sent to you for transparency.

    Yours faithfully, 


    Dr Serena Cardoso

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