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

Doctor On Demand

Here’s a closer look at the red-flag symptoms that signal it’s time to visit urgent care for a sore throat: Severe sore throat or trouble swallowing A severe sore throat or trouble swallowing suggests you might have a more complex underlying cause needing urgent medical attention. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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

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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. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. Initially, we focused on four conditions, community-acquired pneumonia, exacerbations of heart failure, exacerbations of COPD and cellulitis. He, primarily, did house calls.

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