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

Doctor On Demand

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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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. I’m just stunned even writing that! Eric: Okay.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. It improves symptom management. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Caroline: Certainly, the pandemic has certainly catalyzed the use of telehealth.