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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. That’s where urgent care comes in—a middle ground that’s convenient, affordable, and effective. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a perfect example.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. Your choice can impact how easily and quickly you can access care, particularly in non-emergency situations.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

What is primary care? Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) In fact, I enjoy patients who are engaged in their care and ask questions.

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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. There is a lot of literature suggesting that standard transplant care doesn’t really meet the needs of these patients and their caregivers. Emergency rooms. Alex: We had you on just recently, the podcast.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. And certainly we can take care of patients at more advanced ages.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. We are really trained to treat it as a purely physical sensation that you can rate on a scale of zero to 10 with specific tools. I heard this loud click. I couldn’t move any of my body.