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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. Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! Why is it called a clinic?

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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. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. The ER is open 24/7 and has the equipment and staff to handle life-threatening conditions at any time.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home. Either they go down continuous home care or somebody comes to the home, or they go into GIP, or they are a live discharge and get admitted to the acute care hospital. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

If you know that there’s a group that you don’t treat even after they’re diagnosed, it causes anxiety, but you’re not causing them harms from treatment. So I’m actually interested in also trying to help women who’ve been diagnosed figure out what to do too. They have so much going on.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. That’s a reasonable idea.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about â…“ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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