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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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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. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options.

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

GeriPal

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. Therefore, in the ED, the goal is really to recognize the science and symptoms on history and physical exam that are suggestive of metabolic disease.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program.

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