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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Do you prefer a full-service medical center or a walk-in 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. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.

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

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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

GeriPal

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER. I’m excited.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

Mara Schonberg is associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. 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. Mara: Thank you so much.

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

GeriPal

Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. Okay, that’s scary, but pretty impressive.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. This is not, really, the most straightforward thing. Tacara: I agree.

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