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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Urgent Care "Patient receiving urgent care treatment" Urgent care centers fill the gap between your primary care doctor and the emergency room. Whether you have a sprain, minor fracture, or a cut that needs stitches, these facilities offer immediate care without the long wait times typically associated with emergency rooms.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

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. He was a terrible diabetic. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room. And I was.