Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JULY 1, 2025

When sudden illness or injury strikes, knowing whether to head to the emergency room or an urgent care clinic can make all the difference—both in terms of your health and your wallet. While both facilities provide immediate medical attention, they serve very different purposes and handle varying levels of injuries and illness.

Emergency Room 52

Emergency Room ER Family Medicine DO 52

StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

Furthermore, an emergency is also defined as an urgent need for assistance or relief. When thinking about emergency room settings, even, one can easily correlate the words of Webster to what one would necessitate to be a situation requiring emergency medical treatment. And our ER is not alone. Broken bones.

ER 100

ER Emergency Room Family Doctor Illness 100

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Suddenly, my job as an ER physician was boring. Not only Emma, but soon my friends and family were asking if I did "the stuff that Dr. Pimple Popper does." I know there are many more invasive procedures we perform in the ER that could be considered similar, but I couldn't think of them quickly enough. Eewww, gross," Emma said.

IT 100

IT ER Patient-Centered Patients 100

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Wait, I don’t.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. She entertained her family. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

Nurse Practitioner 136

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115