StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Being an ER physician facing this dilemma on the front lines of a large emergency and trauma center, I am also bearing witness to the more daunting picture of this dilemma--the mental and physical effects Covid-19 is having on our patients as well as on all of us. We are all scared. Take a walk. Go to bed earlier.

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ER Illness Physicals Provider 100

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. A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options. What is in a clinic?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. 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. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. No, I’m not.

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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

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. They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. That’s why we did it.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. 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. Margot: Yes. We basically met them.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123