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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Patients who have a trusted primary care doctor are more likely to follow medical advice, manage their chronic conditions effectively, and ultimately enjoy better health outcomes.

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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. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? Brianna 00:41 Thanks. Great to be here.

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

GeriPal

How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Management, it’s hard. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. Are you going to see a doctor are? Who sees you?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program. Tacara: I agree.

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