Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

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. 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.

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ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center. Clinics are often smaller than hospitals and may focus on a specific type of care, such as general health check-ups, urgent care, vaccinations, or specialty services like physical therapy.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. I am not a board certified. I’m a doctor.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s mentally draining, physically taxing and if patients have died in front of you, it’s plain traumatic. When I come across arrogant GPs and medical professionals, I wonder how they would handle the stress of a full NICU/PICU/ER/Casualty. I’ve lived through these moments with such a fragile spirit.

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ER Management IT Consulting 52

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. Therefore, in the ED, the goal is really to recognize the science and symptoms on history and physical exam that are suggestive of metabolic disease. Now, first off, realize that most IEMs present with very nonspecific clinical features.

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Consulting Individual Family Families 59

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. I share this story of a patient I cared for who was in the later stages of ALS and had lost much of physical function, lost voice. So I got back into it anonymously.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. They want you to recognize their pain, not just their physical pain, but their trauma that they’ve experienced as a, as a, as a result of being on the streets. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s such a physical act, showing just how strong doctor’s moral resolve is to save a life. In the same way that no one’s going to fight you or no one’s going to say, yes, do that colonoscopy because George Clooney did it on ER. And yet, it’s so hard to be able to draw a boundary.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

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 it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there. The intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. They didn’t go to the psych ER again. Now, they didn’t shut down the psych ER, so did they really save money, because they didn’t go?

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit. I distinctly remember being in the ER, trying to recruit patients for this program. And that’s more standard. Tacara: I agree.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115