Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. 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. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. Here’s why everyone is talking about it!

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Clinic Chronic Disease Management Primary Care Medical 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Michele: Yeah.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome John Loughnane who is a palliative care doctor and end-of-life doula and co-founder of Present for You.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Samir.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. And one of the things was, “You’re telling us stuff we already know”, and also, “I’m going to critique you in that you didn’t provide any solutions.”

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

So we have done a few qualitative studies where we’ve worked with a bunch of primary care clinicians, geriatricians included and adults 76 and older to try to get language to have these kind of conversations. And so we did learn in that study that even… Here we were trying to take the burden off primary care doctors.

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Screening PCP PCP IT 99

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

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Family Physician Families Family GP 130

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. I think it’s all about how important.

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Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 73

PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates. And so I do encourage you to be familiar with some of the information provided by the CDC as long as it’s still online. This depot version of antibiotics will provide coverage for 24 hours.

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Vaccination Illness IT Clinic 68

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment,” the notice read. Adolescents and young adults ages 13 to 24 accounted for 1 in 5 new HIV infections in the U.S.

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Vaccination Government Patient-Centered Hospital 52