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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. 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.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? Naheed 00:31 Thanks so much for having me here. Eric 15:57 2014.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day?

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. So someone who’s got, let’s say, a psychotic disorder and a substance use disorder, those services are going to be pretty intense case management to help them just manage their life.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program. Bruce: That would definitely be considered a macroaggression in 2023.

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