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4, 3, 2, 1 And 90.

StorytellERdoc

One of the largest problems in our ER, it seems, is that there is a subset of patients who visit us on a routine basis. It is a real problem in our ER. We just don't have the time among all the other serious happenings in our ER that require our attention. His last visit to our ER was just three days prior.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

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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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center. Clinics are often smaller than hospitals and may focus on a specific type of care, such as general health check-ups, urgent care, vaccinations, or specialty services like physical therapy.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. Therefore, in the ED, the goal is really to recognize the science and symptoms on history and physical exam that are suggestive of metabolic disease. And importantly, call a stat genetics consult for further guidance or management. What should you do?

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Post-call-trauma

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

It’s mentally draining, physically taxing and if patients have died in front of you, it’s plain traumatic. When I come across arrogant GPs and medical professionals, I wonder how they would handle the stress of a full NICU/PICU/ER/Casualty. Nothing is normal about it.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

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 share this story of a patient I cared for who was in the later stages of ALS and had lost much of physical function, lost voice.

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