StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Being an ER physician facing this dilemma on the front lines of a large emergency and trauma center, I am also bearing witness to the more daunting picture of this dilemma--the mental and physical effects Covid-19 is having on our patients as well as on all of us. I have always had a great faith in humanity.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. When to go to the ER for a sore throat Go to the emergency room (ER) if your sore throat causes any difficulty swallowing or breathing.

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NPR Health - Shots

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A New York woman seeking to end a dangerous ectopic pregnancy in a fallopian tube finds the procedure more complicated and expensive than expected — even in a state with liberal abortion laws. Image credit: James Cavallini/Science Source)

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center. If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How do you think about non pharmacological approaches, or maybe even in the people who just have a shorter, maybe less complicated anxiety, but it’s still impacting their sleep? And that was a common experience I had in my psychiatry training, was being called to the ER to see someone who’d come in with panic.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Relationships are usually more complicated. You know, actually, Eric, I want to tell you, actually, about a different patient, if you don’t mind, instead of Mr. A. At a standstill in rooms.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. Alex 06:10 Or having watched that John Oliver episode about DaVita, we will have a link. Eric 06:16 To it in our show. It’s right there.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Teva submitted an ANDA in 2002, and after some complicated regulatory history, ultimately carved-out the congestive heart failure indication by way of a section viii statement. Instead, it was GSK who erred in omitting the post-MI language from the use code.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. The peach program and our mobile palliative care program for people experiencing structural vulnerabilities. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. We can make this better.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. And that’s more standard.

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