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

Doctor On Demand

Here’s what to expect during an urgent care visit for strep: Patient history and a physical examination First, a nurse or doctor will ask you questions about your sore throat, like when it started, how much it hurts, and whether you have other symptoms. Then, they’ll perform a physical examination.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. It has multiple prints and updates.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit. Every time we’d make a visit, he would talk about being physically restrained.

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