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A Pearl From Medical School

A Country Doctor Writes

I’ve never heard any of my American colleagues talk about that, although there are several articles about the connection if you Google it. Before he ever got the test, he ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia. A few weeks ago I saw a man who wasn’t feeling well.

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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. In this article, I’ll walk you through why urgent care could be your best option when time is of the essence.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

There’s an article about her in New York Times. I think that’s not hard to accept this conclusion, that if you know your patient, which is what you get with high continuity, you know your patient, you’re going to pick up on problems that they have before they get so bad that they end up in the emergency room or the hospital.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Some family doctors choose to do a fellowship and are trained more specifically to do more advanced surgical procedures, deliver babies (including C-sections), work on public policy and advocacy, work in an emergency room, and the list goes on. Read My Latest News!

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. ” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.”

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

That put me in the emergency room. Eric 39:13 No, there was actually in Colorado, I think there was that Atlantic article or New Yorker. Eric 39:20 Yeah, that was a great article. And it was at that moment that I thought, okay, there’s got to be something else out there that can help me. For real, I would say.

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