TheseThis is when the GP comes to your house to treat you or see a patient. Most often a GP has to make house-callshouse calls to see elderly people who cannot get to the surgery easily. They might be ill and need tothe doctor to give himthem medicine or it could be that the GP just wantwants to check on them and make sure that they are ok.lf If you are ill, the doctor will normally prescribe you some medicine and tell you to go away for a littlefew days before you go back and visit them again, if you have not started to get better. The GP will also explain how you can have a better lifestyle that could prevent you from becoming ill in the rest place. They will normally recommend that you stop to smoketo stop smoking cigarettes, not to drink alcohol and to get exercise. Once you have your prescription you will need to visit a pharmacy to get the medicine the doctor prescribed for you.