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Emergency Room vs. Urgent Care

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

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.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We determined personal adherence rates by calculating the mean adherence rates of the medications prescribed to each individual. The mean age was 81.2

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Follow Up Visits Boost Your Health while Saving You Time and Money

Altitude Family & Internal Medicine

Altitude Family & Internal Medicine (303) 730-2167 Follow Up Visits Boost Your Health while Saving You Time and Money The Hidden Benefits of Follow-Up Appointments: How a Simple Visit Can Boost Your Health and Save You Time and Money Navigating a recent hospitalization or emergency room visit can be.

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

Empowerment self-defense training protects emergency department staff, boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters a safer work environment. Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

Robin Wolaner, 71, a retired publisher in Sausalito, California, has been known to badger friends who delay getting recommended shots, sending them relevant medical studies. Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them seniors, and is fatal to 10% of hospitalized older adults.

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It's Not About The Pus

StorytellERdoc

Not only Emma, but soon my friends and family were asking if I did "the stuff that Dr. Pimple Popper does." You would be surprised at the number of patients who go through the process of a medical encounter only to leave with confusion, frustration, or feeling worse than prior to their encounter. Pimple Popper is so great, Dad!"

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. I think she’s the creator of the mini cog. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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