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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. They’re like a hybrid between a primary care clinic and the ER—open late, available on weekends, and usually accepting walk-ins. No long waits like you’d experience in an ER.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

And how do we actually strike the right balance between obtaining essential diagnostic information and avoiding unnecessary imaging? The other thing though that’s important is a lot of times, you know, the CT gives us good information and it’s fast, but it may not be the best test. Tons of fascinating information.

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To Care Or Not

StorytellERdoc

Recently, due to the stress that several of my dearest friends have been experiencing in caring for their elderly parents, I am even more appreciative and respectful of my privilege in caring for elderly patients who have attentive and loving adult children who accompany them to our ER. As I gathered information from Ms.

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