Emergency Room Family Illness Patients 
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.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: One of the most common primary care illnesses is acute rhinosinusitis (ARS). Setting & Population: Six practice-based research networks recruited patients aged 18-65 years with upper respiratory symptoms. Patients were recruited from primary care practices, emergency rooms and urgent care centers, and the community (e.g.,
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StorytellERdoc
JULY 10, 2014
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. Instead of providing emergent care, it seems I spend at least half of my emergency room time now playing doctor to chronic illnesses.
Physician's Weekly
JULY 1, 2025
So, in mid-March, he took his family to a primary care clinic at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. By the end of the visit, his son, Anh Hoang, had received one shot protecting against four illnesses — measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox. They did not help the Nguyen family. Then the bills came.
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 24, 2025
“The population over 65, which often suffers the worst impact of respiratory viruses and others, now has the benefit of vaccines that can prevent much of that serious illness,” he said. “Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.”
StorytellERdoc
APRIL 23, 2014
I returned my gaze to this patient and gave her a smile as I approached her bedside. My response words--actively thanking him for taking the time to accompany his elderly mother to the Emergency Department--were something I had been saying for the past few years to adult children who accompanied their elder parent to our department.
Hitchcock Family Medicine
AUGUST 11, 2023
In fact, there are several ways that a family care physician can save your life. Preventative Care A family physician will have a complete medical history for you and your family. For example, if your family has a history of heart disease, they'll help you learn how to eat a heart-healthy diet to prevent cardiovascular problems.
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