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

Doctor On Demand

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. 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. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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"Why Everyone Is Talking About This Medical Clinic in Michigan!"

Plum Health

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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

GeriPal

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. How did you both get interested in this as a topic?

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process. It created a lot of challenges.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

GPs Provide Most Healthcare The following graph shows that by far most patient/doctor contacts are with GPs. On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined. 21 More than 45% of primary care patients have multimorbidity (based on 700,000 US patients).