Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I'm not going to lie, after two years of working in the urgent care setting, being in the ER was super chill for me. During my last official update, I had just finished my Mohs and Surgical Dermatology month in November and was headed into Emergency Medicine for December.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Recently, due to the stress that several of my dearest friends have been experiencing in caring for their elderly parents, I am even more appreciative and respectful of my privilege in caring for elderly patients who have attentive and loving adult children who accompany them to our ER. You do know how much you are loved, right Ms.

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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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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. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM. So those would be a plasma sample for plasma amino acids, organic acids, acyl carnitine, other compounds, which your friendly geneticist, when you consult them will be incredibly happy you got.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When I come across arrogant GPs and medical professionals, I wonder how they would handle the stress of a full NICU/PICU/ER/Casualty. When I come across difficult consultants, I always wonder what kind of registrar they were.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. So that’s great. Corita 04:32 Yep. Absolutely.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. Did they ask for a consult?” I think it was a doctor describing early palliative care consults. So I got back into it anonymously. That blew my mind. .”

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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. ” How is that right?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I point this out a lot more nowadays to the resident teams that consult. If the consult is for “code status,” I always ask them, take a look at your past conversations. In the same way that no one’s going to fight you or no one’s going to say, yes, do that colonoscopy because George Clooney did it on ER.

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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. I love it and, but I just wondering as I’m doing inpatient consults or people are doing outpatient care or you’re caring for people and you don’t have this program, let’s say you can advocate for. Alex 40:07 Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. His lymphoma had relapsed, and palliative care was consulted to help with his symptoms.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

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. We consult all the time on patients who have advanced directors who say one thing and we’re in a situation where it’s clear they want to do something else.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Alex: Yeah, we talk a lot about de-skilling in geriatrics and palliative care, because so much of what we do is a consultant role. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. And then, this little mini consultant.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

AUGUST 25, 2023

” Er. Consultants come in when things are dire. ” Er no prof, nothing. There’s a patient in casualties with what seems like a bowel obstruction that needs surgery” I said. The registrar looked at me. “Why didn’t you tell me?!” Because your appendix was rupturing? I apologized.

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