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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

This concern is especially serious for people with high blood pressure, diabetes, or who have a history of heart disease. For more severe symptoms, in-person care may be the recommended course of treatment, and your virtual provider can help you make that decision.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds. I’m just gonna send them to lab and get the blood test. I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. And a primary care provider has 18 minutes. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

But I mean, I would also add that not all of the responses to the PGA, and to the provider part that is completed, are coming from the patient. Like getting a donor, doing all the different tests, making sure there’s not going be an interaction. John: You know, Eric, I think it’s a definite possibility. Mazie: Oh, for sure.