Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Choosing the right primary care clinic involves considering several factors, such as clinic locations, healthcare system, and the services offered. What is in a clinic?

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

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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ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Something I’ll often point out to patients is, you know, how do you identify your emotions? On today’s podcast, we’ve invited Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson to talk to us about anxiety.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. I am passionately against bad care and there is a lot of bad hospice care that preys on highly vulnerable patients and is unnecessary. Eric: Great.

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IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And so all of my work has really been trying to help patients understand what matters to them or make decisions based on what is likely the realistic outcomes of a decision and try to explain it to them in a way that they can understand so that they can make the best choice for them. Do you think most patients know that? Mara: Yeah.

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Screening PCP PCP IT 99

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). And I’d say, particularly in healthcare, where we’re not very good. The experience of both patients and clinicians isn’t very good.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115