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

Doctor On Demand

If swallowing is extremely painful and the fever is high, you may not have enough time to get to the ER safely without emergency transport. Then, they’ll perform a physical examination. Less common causes Certain chronic conditions can cause a persistent sore throat, though they usually come with other distinct symptoms.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. It has multiple prints and updates.

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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. 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. And we weren’t bringing the patients to us.

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