Consulting Emergency Room Hospital IT 
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 26, 2025
Empowerment self-defense training protects emergency department staff, boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters a safer work environment. Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price.
Plum Health
OCTOBER 11, 2024
By scheduling annual visits, you're setting up a health baseline that doctors can use to spot any changes or emerging problems. Your choice can impact how easily and quickly you can access care, particularly in non-emergency situations. It's a common challenge many people face. Regular check-ups ensure early detection of health issues.
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Doctor On Demand
APRIL 28, 2025
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. This is a medical emergency where you should call 911. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. This isn’t to say we’ve “made it” – more to say that we’ve reached a new stage of maturation of the field – in which the evidence we are discussing is frequently high quality randomized trial level data. -@AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.
GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. Today we focus on an intervention , published in JAMA, that gave emergency clinicians basic palliative care knowledge, training, and skills. They got feedback. So did it matter?
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. And, surgeons often spend the majority of their conversations with patients describing anatomical details and exactly how they plan to ‘fix it’ , with little discussion of what that ‘fix’ will do for a patient’s overall goals.
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