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

Doctor On Demand

If swallowing is extremely painful and the fever is high, you may not have enough time to get to the ER safely without emergency transport. due to chemotherapy, diabetes, or autoimmune disease)? chemotherapy or steroids). Even a sore throat or mild infection could escalate into a medical emergency.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

We sought to analyse how prescribing trends have changed over time, utilising a dataset containing all prescriptions signed and dispensed in the UK by primary care facilities from January 2014 to November 2020. In addition, increased prescribing of a multitude of medications highlights groups particularly affected by the pandemic.