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

Doctor On Demand

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. 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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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. It happened to my mother. Louise, what happened to your mom? Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law Blog

and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. 29, 2023) (“Basis”); NPRM at 44,603. In 2023, HHS conducted a different approach, a two-part test, to determine whether marijuana has a CAMU. 21 U.S.C. § Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. Basis at 61; NPRM at 44,615.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. When you think about anti-asian hate, how should I think about defining the hate component? Alex 15:37 Yeah.

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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. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. And guess what?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. And that’s more standard.

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