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

Doctor On Demand

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. 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. This is a serious sign of airway obstruction and requires immediate care.

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

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We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Eric: Okay. Corita: Yes. Eric: Okay.

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

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Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision. But if people aren’t given all the information that they need, they’re not even provided with a choice, then that’s a disparity.