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Defining Emergency

StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

Emergency, as per the all-knowing Webster, is defined as an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action. Furthermore, an emergency is also defined as an urgent need for assistance or relief. To office appointments sent to the ER because "we are overbooked today." Broken bones.

ER

ER Emergency Room Family Doctor Illness

Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

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Hypertension Diabetes ER Medical

America's ER docs warn of surge in patients due to 'tripledemic'

Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Emergency rooms are clogged with people who are waiting for inpatient beds or other care and it's causing a crisis, according to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

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Emergency Room ER Patients IT

Patient Testimonial – Austin Ault

Logansport Memorial Hospital

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As a patient, you want to know you’re being cared for with the utmost attention and compassion. For Austin Ault, he felt reassured during his time at Logansport Memorial, knowing that our dedicated team was alongside him every step of the way, including the Emergency Room , Medical/Surgical, Surgery , and Orthopedics.

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Patients ER Appointment Emergency Room

It's Not About The Pus

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Several years ago, my daughter Emma introduced me to some videos on YouTube of a dermatologist from California who posted her sometimes shocking but always intriguing encounters with patients who suffered from a variety of dermatologic issues. Suddenly, my job as an ER physician was boring. Well, okay--Emma liked pus and blackheads.

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IT ER Patient-Centered Patients

Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. As a doctor with experience in both primary care and urgent care , I’ve seen firsthand how urgent care centers have become a lifeline for many patients.

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Objective blood alcohol measures confirm the limitations of questionnaires, offer increased clinical opportunities

Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Patients in the Emergency Room (ER) should be blood-tested for hazardous drinking rather than evaluated by questionnaires alone, according to a new study comparing alcohol use screening methods. A sizeable minority of patients attend the ER for alcohol-related reasons (12–15% in the UK).

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Emergency Room ER Clinic Screening

Bingo Resilience

StorytellERdoc

APRIL 23, 2014

I returned my gaze to this patient and gave her a smile as I approached her bedside. Of dropping everything at that very moment to be at their parent's side during an Emergency Room visit. On review of her previous visits, I had noticed that she had never been to our ER before. That was in 1975." I really like you."

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

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. Patients who have a trusted primary care doctor are more likely to follow medical advice, manage their chronic conditions effectively, and ultimately enjoy better health outcomes.

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

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. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room. "Its like taking the batteries out of your thermostat. Thats when we really need to aggressively cool people off in an ice bath."

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Illness Engineering Medical Nurse Practitioner

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Two-thirds of the patients in the home now have COVID-19. Seventeen of your patients are dead. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on gowns and facemasks. Did I summarize that right, Darrell?

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Defining Emergency

Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

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America's ER docs warn of surge in patients due to 'tripledemic'

Patient Testimonial – Austin Ault

It's Not About The Pus

Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Objective blood alcohol measures confirm the limitations of questionnaires, offer increased clinical opportunities

Bingo Resilience

Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

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

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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