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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

When to use telehealth for chest congestion Use telehealth, also known as virtual care , for chest congestion when symptoms are mild to moderate and you need medical advice, prescriptions, or a treatment plan. Patients with asthma may need to increase the frequency of their inhaler use or take a short course of oral steroids.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Dr. Shay’s original definition was based upon his patients’ war narratives and Homer’s Iliad (762 B.C.) In medicine, combating illness requires primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Secondary prevention reduces impact of established illness (antidepressants). Primary prevention intervenes before injury (seatbelts).

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor.