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

Doctor On Demand

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. The provider examines your throat, may perform tests like a strep test, and diagnoses the cause. Then, they’ll perform a physical examination. Treatment After diagnosing the cause of your sore throat, the doctor will prescribe treatment.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. This is something we’ve heard from people: that if you just bring it up every year as part of your routine physical, like, “Any concerns about driving?” Somebody who’s older, maybe just diagnosed them with very mild dementia. Emmy: Yeah.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. Therefore, in the ED, the goal is really to recognize the science and symptoms on history and physical exam that are suggestive of metabolic disease.

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Podcast: Cervical Spine Injuries & Imaging in Children

PEMBlog

2014 May;133(5):e1179-88. It’s particularly difficult to diagnose cervical spine injuries in kids under three because they can’t give you an accurate history and cooperate with the exam. Cervical spine injury patterns in children. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-3505. PMID: 24777222; PMCID: PMC9923608. Am J Emerg Med.