Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. This requires emergency treatment.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. But I gave this talk, and one of the questions I asked a group of maybe 150 residents was, do you talk to your healthcare provider about your medical cannabis use? Eric, do you want me to go first?

Medical 100

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 100

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Is this our role?

Families 102

Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. They can’t believe it, but we come back again and again and again gently to provide that support. And so the attitude has unfortunately become like, we just don’t provide care to folks.

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Whenever I hear about for-profit, non-for-profit, the differences between them, mostly everybody turns to, I think, your 2014 paper looking at the differences between for-profit and non-for-profit. Although I saw that hospice was providing a lot of really great quality care for these patients, I also saw a lot of problems.

Families 107

Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. I went into emergency medicine to act.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78