Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Deana Hendrickson, 66, who provides daily care for three young grandsons in Los Angeles, sought an additional MMR shot, though she was vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella as a child, in case her immunity to measles had waned. . “I’m sort of hectoring,” she acknowledged.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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. For instance, if you’re running low on a critical medication like an antidepressant and can’t get in to see your regular provider, urgent care can help bridge the gap.

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Doctor On Demand

AUGUST 11, 2023

Consulting a medical professional can provide expert guidance on managing the situation effectively. See a doctor now Knowing When to Seek Emergency Help It’s important to note that in certain cases, heat stroke can escalate rapidly, requiring urgent medical intervention.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For Austin Ault, he felt reassured during his time at Logansport Memorial, knowing that our dedicated team was alongside him every step of the way, including the Emergency Room , Medical/Surgical, Surgery , and Orthopedics. As a patient, you want to know you’re being cared for with the utmost attention and compassion.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

We walked down to the emergency room and reviewed his chart. Then things started to get a little bit different… His chest x-ray had some peripheral infiltrates, and the emergency department providers ordered a CT scan. It started off like any other cardiology admission that we’d had during that month.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. There has to be effective support provided behind any type of screening strategy in order for it to truly be effective. Joe, your thoughts?

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. Your choice can impact how easily and quickly you can access care, particularly in non-emergency situations. It creates a continuous health history that benefits both you and your provider.

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StorytellERdoc

APRIL 23, 2014

Of dropping everything at that very moment to be at their parent's side during an Emergency Room visit. Often, it was the adult child who could convey just a little more history or provide just a bit more support that could make a difference in my course of treatment of their parent.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. When to go to the ER for a sore throat Go to the emergency room (ER) if your sore throat causes any difficulty swallowing or breathing. This requires emergency treatment.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Dr. Kushel and Mr. Watts remind healthcare providers to speak out about the structural causes of homelessness. This episode was hosted by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, Jazzmin Williams, and Alec Calac. Do you have a coordinated entry system (CES) in your community? Can you refer your patient there? 3. Push back against dehumanizing language.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MARCH 1, 2025

For example, when cleaning it’s important to know that bleach plus ammonia equals a trip to the emergency room. Medical teams need to know what was ingested to provide proper treatment. But, mixing the wrong cleaning products is like running an accidental chemistry experiment. Don’t let it.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. Therefore, family physicians are trained to do minor surgical procedures in the office, care for kids and adults, provide various GYN services, among many other comprehensive services for patients. What is primary care?

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 11, 2023

A family care physician can provide pain relievers and some treatments for injuries. Comprehensive Care General practitioners provide a wide range of services. Prompt treatment for personal injuries is critical, and you shouldn't have to wait in an emergency room for hours on end.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JANUARY 1, 2025

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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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

That put me in the emergency room. But I gave this talk, and one of the questions I asked a group of maybe 150 residents was, do you talk to your healthcare provider about your medical cannabis use? After I asked many people how many used it, and I would say less than one in ten were willing to talk to their healthcare provider.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. Why is that important in the emergency room?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. I think I feel more comfortable as a provider in trying to support people in their isolation.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

People saw that there were people who needed to have supportive care, didn’t need to have the level of nursing that was provided in nursing homes, and there was money to be made. Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. Or do you want to go to the hospital if something happens?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Emergency rooms. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I am wondering whether it’s the conversations and preparation that’s primary care providers and outpatient providers are having with a lot of these patients and families to either prevent an ICU admission or potentially address their goals, such that they don’t go into the ICU.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” And he says, “It’s in the emergency room.” Wasn’t that the Provide Your Opinion, Don’t Hide It? We hope you enjoy this episode. And the blue stripey bear says to the red stripey bear, “I have a fracture. I need to fix it.” Because I read that.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. So, for example, in my essay, I initially used the phrase emergency room, and JAMA said, “We use emergency department.” The first guest is Liz Salmi. ” So very minimal changes.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. Schedules of Controlled Substances: Rescheduling of Marijuana, 89 Fed. 44,597 (May 21, 2024). Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. Basis at 61; NPRM at 44,615. *

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

This federal law has required hospitals with emergency departments to provide stabilizing treatment, including abortion, to patients experiencing medical emergencies for nearly four decades. EMTALA was designed to protect patients in crisis.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. They said, you know, we refer to mental health, we refer to social work because we have language concordant providers.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

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. Very, very few centers are providing those services. And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And then three weeks later, you’re in the emergency room and somebody else talks with you for a little while. And I also think, we still operate under pay for… We get paid for the services we provide, right? ” And I think that’s dangerous. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

Enzymes provide the body with instructions for what it needs to do, and when people lose energy and water, biochemical systems in the body start to fail, Wood says. The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room.

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Physicians News Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Some hospitals are expanding emergency room capacity and increasing staffing to accommodate the rising number of flu cases. Public health officials continue to monitor the situation closely, providing updates and guidance to both the healthcare community and the public.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. I trained at Hopkins.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Including, I think, a 24/7 palliative care intervention in the emergency room, an inpatient comfort care intervention for COVID-positive patients … doing a tremendous amount. So we anticipated, based on what was happening in Seattle, a pretty large influx of elders that were going to come through the emergency room.

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