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. We are all scared. Take a walk. Go to bed earlier.

ER 100

ER Illness Physicals Provider 100

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. What is in a clinic?

Clinic 52

Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Alex 09:00 Not true.

IT 98

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

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. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. This shouldn’t have happened.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115