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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. In fact, I enjoy patients who are engaged in their care and ask questions.

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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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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We’ve got a, Sheryl published a great article, and Kenny and Ken published an editorial for that article. And that’s why I think your article is so important is that we need standards. So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. And to keep it short work for an article. Ruth: Also in a few short words, we found similar to our initial study that there were differences in physical environment.