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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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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

We are fortunate to have Tammie Quest, emergency and palliative trained and long a leader in this space, to help us unpack and contextualize these findings. Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.

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PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion

Doctors for America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 30, 2025 Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion By Intervening in a Federal Challenge to EMTALA, Doctors for America Seeks to Protect Health and Lifesaving Care WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Flu Season 2024-2025: CDC Reports Worst Outbreak in Years

Physicians News Digest

Health officials are urging the public to take preventive measures as hospitals nationwide grapple with a surge in influenza cases. According to the CDC , the onset of the 2024-2025 flu season has been marked by an unusually high number of cases. “This flu season is unprecedented in its intensity,” said Dr. .

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

GeriPal

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. And I was terrified. Why do we need to do more?

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

GeriPal

You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. Then they just looked at those people who were healthcare agents as assigned by durable power of attorney for healthcare and it didn’t really change anything. Alex and I don’t make anything on it.

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PRESS RELEASE: Doctors for America Calls for Evidence-Based Solutions After FSU Shooting

Doctors for America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 April 22, 2025 Doctors for America Calls for Evidence-Based Solutions After FSU Shooting WASHINGTON, D.C. We urge elected leaders to stop choosing inaction over responsibility.