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

Doctor On Demand

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. The ER is open 24/7 and has the equipment and staff to handle life-threatening conditions at any time. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. If someone needs imaging, if someone needs an MR, or CT, you bring them back to the hospital, so there’s some transport costs there.

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