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How a lactation consultant can help you

Vida Family Medicine

It can be extremely stressful trying to deal with all of the emotions and physical symptoms that you will experience postpartum while also trying to ensure your baby is getting enough to eat. This is where a lactation consultant can be very helpful! How can a lactation consultant help with your breastfeeding journey?

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Understanding Heat Stroke: Symptoms and Essential Solutions

Doctor On Demand

Familiarizing yourself with heat stroke symptoms and exploring various solutions, including the option of consulting an online doctor , can prove pivotal in averting severe consequences. Rest : Allow the body to recuperate by resting and avoiding strenuous physical activity until symptoms subside. Urgent care for every day life.

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

Maybe they think it’s time to consult an orthopedic surgeon for immediate joint replacement. Dr. Jonathan Schmidt Dr. Schmidt is a board-certified family medicine physician with undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and medicine from Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois. Reach out today.

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

Doctor On Demand

A short-term sore throat may resolve on its own — monitor symptoms or consult a primary care doctor. Then, they’ll perform a physical examination. During your Doctor on Demand urgent care visit , your provider will assess your physical state, ask key questions, and determine the cause of your sore throat.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. Eric: Yeah. Lyndsay: Yeah.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.