Before you read on
Disclaimer
What this website is for — and what it can’t do for you.
Gilly’s Healthcare provides general healthcare education and does not offer medical diagnosis, treatment, or personalized medical advice. Please contact your healthcare professional for personal medical concerns. For emergencies, call 911.
Education, not advice
Every lesson here — the hospital journey, navigating healthcare, and the short videos — is written to explain how care generally works, so a conversation with your own care team makes more sense. Nothing on this site is a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or guidance about your particular situation. Two people with the same test result can need very different things, and only the clinician who knows your history can say which applies to you.
No doctor–patient relationship
Reading a lesson, asking Gilly a question, or sending a message through the Get in Touch page does not create a doctor–patient or nurse–patient relationship with this website. We cannot see your chart, prescribe anything, or speak on your behalf to a hospital.
Always check your own care team
Hospital and clinic practices differ, and they change. Where a lesson describes what usually happens, your own facility’s instructions take precedence — and if the two disagree, ask your care team to explain the difference rather than guessing.
Emergencies
If something feels like an emergency, don’t look for an answer on this site. Call 911 if you are in the United States, or your local emergency number elsewhere, and get help now.
Information on this site
Lessons are written from nearly 33 years of bedside nursing experience and reviewed for plain language, but medical practice moves. Examples, sample documents, and interactive screens on this site are fictional and built for teaching — they are not real records, real bills, or real test results. Where a lesson points to an outside organisation, that link is for convenience and does not mean we endorse or control what that site says.
Questions about this page?
Tell us through the Get in Touch page and we will take a look. For anything medical, your own healthcare professional is the right place to start.