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At Hatmed we keep our services relevant – in tune with the evolution of the diverse and dynamic community that we serve. We realize that as our clients adapt to a changing world, so do their health requirements. Established almost 20 years ago, Hatmed, an independently owned medical centre, has served a range of patients ranging from students and local community members to presidents and film stars. Officially selected as a panel of doctors to serve local embassies, our comprehensive list of services includes immigration medicals for Canada, New Zealand and Australia. At Hatmed we strive to accommodate and care for each individual that enters our practice to the best of our ability. With 5 doctors on board, waiting in long queues will never be a concern. Whether you need medication for the common cold or an executive medical you can be sure that you will receive quality treatment. General Doctors and Medical Services
Pre-employment Medical & Executive Medical
Immigration Medical
Aviation Medical
Travel Clinic: Yellow fever, travel vaccinations & advice, and baby immunizations
Pathologist
Radiologist
Dentist
Physiotherapist
Dietician
Psychologist

If you take three or more medicines, there is an appointment worth booking that almost nobody books. Not a repeat script...
23/10/2026

If you take three or more medicines, there is an appointment worth booking that almost nobody books. Not a repeat script. A review.

Medicines accumulate quietly. One started years ago for a reason that has since passed. One added by a specialist who did not have the full list in front of them. Nothing wrong with any individual decision, and no one ever looking at the whole thing together.

The gaps are usually supplements and anything off a pharmacy shelf, because people do not think of those as medicine and leave them out. They interact all the same.

So bring everything. The actual boxes, or photographs of them, including the ones you stopped taking and never mentioned to anybody.

Sometimes the outcome is fewer medicines. Sometimes it is just knowing exactly why you take each one, which is worth the appointment on its own.

Open seven days a week. WhatsApp 066 076 6613.

The number on the thermometer is the thing everybody watches and the thing that tells you least.A high reading in someon...
22/10/2026

The number on the thermometer is the thing everybody watches and the thing that tells you least.

A high reading in someone who is alert, drinking and recognisably themselves is less worrying than a modest one in someone drowsy and not quite right. Height of fever is a poor guide to how unwell a person actually is.

Medicine for a fever is for comfort. It helps someone rest and keep drinking, which is what actually matters. It is not a race to get a number down.

What to watch instead is behaviour. Drowsiness, confusion, not drinking, not passing urine, or a child who cannot be roused and settled.

And the ones that do not wait: any fever at all in a baby under three months, a stiff neck, a rash that does not fade when you press a glass against it, difficulty breathing, or a fever that has run past three days.

Open seven days a week, including public holidays. WhatsApp 066 076 6613.

If you are going anywhere in December, this is the week it stops being early and starts being sensible.Four to six weeks...
21/10/2026

If you are going anywhere in December, this is the week it stops being early and starts being sensible.

Four to six weeks before departure is the window travel medicine is built around. Some vaccine courses run over several weeks rather than being a single shot, and a yellow fever certificate only becomes valid ten days after the vaccination. Leave that one late and you can be refused entry at a border.

A travel consultation works off your actual trip. Where you are going, which route, what dates, and your own health history. You leave with what you need rather than the full menu, plus malaria prophylaxis if the destination calls for it.

Mozambique, Zanzibar, Thailand and the Kruger all need something different.

Message us with your destination and your departure date and we will tell you what applies.

WhatsApp 066 076 6613. 454 Hilda Street, Hatfield.

A lot of what sends people to a casualty department on a weekend is ordinary general practice work, and they only find t...
20/10/2026

A lot of what sends people to a casualty department on a weekend is ordinary general practice work, and they only find that out after three hours and a bill.

A thirty-second phone call tells you which one this is.

We are not going to pretend everything belongs here. Chest pain, difficulty breathing, serious bleeding, a head injury, stroke symptoms, or anyone who has collapsed: that is an emergency department, immediately, and do not drive yourself. If you phone us about one of those, that is exactly what we will tell you.

Everything in between is worth asking about, especially on a Saturday or a Sunday when the default assumption is that nothing else is open.

We are open seven days a week, including public holidays.

WhatsApp 066 076 6613.

Heat exhaustion and heatstroke get used interchangeably. They are not the same thing, and the difference decides what yo...
20/10/2026

Heat exhaustion and heatstroke get used interchangeably. They are not the same thing, and the difference decides what you do next.

Heat exhaustion looks like heavy sweating, cool clammy skin, weakness, nausea, headache and dizziness. Shade, lying down, cooling off and fluids. It usually settles.

Heatstroke looks like confusion, agitation, slurred speech or collapse, with a very high temperature. That is an emergency and it is not something to manage in a lounge with a wet cloth.

The myth worth dropping is the one most people were taught: that someone with heatstroke stops sweating. Not reliably. Somebody who collapses while exercising in the heat can still be drenched and already be in serious trouble, which is exactly how this gets missed.

Confusion is the dividing line, not the sweating. If someone is not making sense, stop trying to cool them at home and get help immediately.

Open seven days a week. WhatsApp 066 076 6613.

Send this to whoever still runs at midday.

Open 08:00 to 12:00 today, and on public holidays.Most practices in Pretoria are closed right now. If something got wors...
18/10/2026

Open 08:00 to 12:00 today, and on public holidays.

Most practices in Pretoria are closed right now. If something got worse overnight instead of better, you have somewhere to go today rather than tomorrow.

WhatsApp 066 076 6613, or come through to 454 Hilda Street, Hatfield.

Open until 13:00 today.Walk ins welcome, no appointments. Open again tomorrow, 08:00 to 12:00.454 Hilda Street, Hatfield...
17/10/2026

Open until 13:00 today.

Walk ins welcome, no appointments.

Open again tomorrow, 08:00 to 12:00.

454 Hilda Street, Hatfield. Safe basement parking.

"Come back if it gets worse" is the most misread sentence in medicine. It sounds like a polite way of saying there is no...
16/10/2026

"Come back if it gets worse" is the most misread sentence in medicine. It sounds like a polite way of saying there is nothing wrong. It is not.

Most diagnoses in general practice are probabilities rather than certainties. A doctor seeing you on day two of an illness is often looking at something that has not declared itself yet, and time is genuinely the most useful test available. Sending you home with instructions is a plan, not a dismissal.

A good version of that plan is specific. What to watch for, by when, and where to go. If you left without all three, you left with half an instruction, and you are entitled to ask for the rest.

The best question you can ask in any consultation is some version of "what would change your mind?" A useful answer names the thing that would shift the diagnosis: a fever returning after settling, symptoms worsening after improving, a new symptom appearing. Then you know exactly what you are watching for instead of guessing.

And if it does get worse, come back. Returning is not wasting anyone's time. It was the second half of the assessment all along.

Open seven days a week, including public holidays. WhatsApp 066 076 6613.

Most back pain settles on its own. What you do in the first two days mostly decides how fast.Bed rest is out of date. It...
15/10/2026

Most back pain settles on its own. What you do in the first two days mostly decides how fast.

Bed rest is out of date. It was standard advice for a long time and it makes most back pain worse rather than better. Short, frequent movement beats lying still, even when movement is the last thing you feel like.

Returning to normal activity sooner, in a reduced way, shortens recovery. Waiting until the pain has gone before doing anything tends to lengthen it.

On pain relief, check what you are already taking before you add anything. Paracetamol hides inside a lot of combination products and stacking it is easier than people expect.

Then the part that is not reassuring, and should not be. See someone straight away if there is any change in bladder or bowel control, numbness around the saddle area, or new weakness in a leg or foot. Also if there is a fever alongside the back pain, or if it followed a serious fall or a crash.

Those are uncommon. They are also the ones where waiting costs the most.

Open seven days a week. WhatsApp 066 076 6613.

If you are joining a yacht, a cruise ship or a merchant vessel, you need a seafarer medical from a SAMSA-accredited prac...
14/10/2026

If you are joining a yacht, a cruise ship or a merchant vessel, you need a seafarer medical from a SAMSA-accredited practitioner. Not any doctor, and not your regular GP.

We have one here in Hatfield.

The examination covers a medical history review, a physical examination, vision and hearing testing, urinalysis, and a chest X-ray where the regulations require it. Radiology is in this building, so that does not become a second appointment somewhere else.

Worth knowing: seafarer medical certificates now run for two years from date of issue rather than one, unless an exclusionary condition applies.

Message us with where you are joining and when you sail, and we will tell you what is needed before you book anything.

WhatsApp 066 076 6613. 454 Hilda Street, Hatfield, Pretoria.

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454 Hilda Street
Pretoria
0083

Opening Hours

Monday 08:00 - 19:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 19:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 19:00
Thursday 08:00 - 19:00
Friday 08:00 - 19:00
Saturday 08:00 - 13:00
Sunday 08:00 - 12:00

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+27123627180

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