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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. 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. This is a serious sign of airway obstruction and requires immediate care.

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

GeriPal

If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis? Eric 21:58 I think for the coding, your encounter with a diagnosis. And so bathe is an acronym.

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

GeriPal

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. And what I want to do is, this is a tough task for you, I’m sure, but I have a patient with a new diagnosis of cancer, and it’s actually a 35-year-old woman. They had no idea. I’m connecting. This is GPT-4.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless. We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. They didn’t go to the psych ER again. What was I doing?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

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