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

Plum Health

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. Urgent Care for Mental Health: Immediate Help When You Need It Mental health is just as important as physical health, and urgent care centers are increasingly recognizing this.

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Bingo Resilience

StorytellERdoc

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. Her physical exam was perfect. Of putting to the side their own needs and demands.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. Urgent Care "Patient receiving urgent care treatment" Urgent care centers fill the gap between your primary care doctor and the emergency room. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Some family doctors choose to do a fellowship and are trained more specifically to do more advanced surgical procedures, deliver babies (including C-sections), work on public policy and advocacy, work in an emergency room, and the list goes on. In fact, I enjoy patients who are engaged in their care and ask questions.

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Pediatric Check-Ups

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

When you and your child visit the pediatrician , the doctor will do things like measure your child’s height and weight, discuss immunizations that will prevent illness, and provide parents with a platform to ask questions about their children’s physical and mental health. Why Are Pediatric Check-ups Important?

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

So, how do we establish standards so that you even get the basic care you need for your cognitive or physical functional issues? Some take care of people who’ve got more healthcare needs, more mental illness, more dementia. And they certainly agree that when you’re seriously ill, you should talk about this.

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

GeriPal

Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Eric: So let’s talk about the emergency room. Alex: We had you on just recently, the podcast.