PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. We know that nine out of ten children that go to the ER do not go to children’s hospital ERs. Nobody wants to miss an appendicitis. Nobody wants to miss a head bleed, right?

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Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

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. 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.

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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. Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And the hard part is, as a provider in palliative care, I actually have very little say of which hospice the individuals we consult to go to. What happened, and I was directly a part of, not in an ownership or employed way, but in a consultant and supporter way of a number of the early for-profits. Overall it was 3.1% Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. And then, this little mini consultant.

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