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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. When to go to the ER for a sore throat Go to the emergency room (ER) if your sore throat causes any difficulty swallowing or breathing.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM. So those would be a plasma sample for plasma amino acids, organic acids, acyl carnitine, other compounds, which your friendly geneticist, when you consult them will be incredibly happy you got.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. So that’s great. Corita 04:32 Yep. Basically vital talk.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. Naheed 15:56 2014. Eric 15:57 2014. I’m guessing, like here, especially in 2014, almost none of it was. The peach program and our mobile palliative care program for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities. Yeah, yeah.