Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

A registered dietitian could be consulted to help develop a comprehensive, personalized plan that aligns with these nutritional targets. Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

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. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Why is it called a clinic?

Clinic 52

Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

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. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

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.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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. .”

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

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?

IT 114

IT Provider Patients Families 114

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.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136