Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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. That’s where urgent care comes in—a middle ground that’s convenient, affordable, and effective.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Discover the Best Primary Care in Michigan As an experienced doctor who has worked with thousands of patients across Michigan, I can confidently say that finding the right primary care provider is one of the most important decisions you can make for your health. Primary Care vs. Urgent Care: What’s the Difference?

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

I cannot tell you the number of times that I have seen a patient and discovered additional diagnoses after they had been to urgent care. Urgent care offices are valuable, but it is difficult for an urgent care doctor to take into account your entire health history. Read My Latest News!

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. Assigning a surrogate decision maker is important for everyone, including those who don’t have serious illness. I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. So that’s the problem I have with the critics of advance care planning. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). He looked very ill. We do conversations on goals of care and advanced care planning as well.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.

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