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Managing Financial Toxicity with Prescription Drug Costs
Let’s be honest: most of us in healthcare didn’t learn about how much medications actually cost our patients when we trained. The system is opaque, the rules are ever-changing, and even the language is confusing.
Pyloric Stenosis: Don’t Miss This Classic Diagnosis
Imagine this: a 4-week-old infant is brought to your urgent care with persistent vomiting. The parents are anxious, the baby looks a bit dry, and your differential is wide. Does pyloric stenosis come to mind?
Mental Health Training for Primary Care and Urgent Care
Mental health might not be what we trained for, but in primary care and urgent care, it’s become a core part of the job. Managing anxiety, depression, and ADHD can be a daily challenge, especially when psychiatric support is limited.
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Is This Long COVID? A Clinician’s Guide to the Puzzling Symptoms in Kids
When a school-age child comes into clinic with fatigue, brain fog, or vague chest discomfort that just won’t quit, you might hear that little voice in your head: Could this be long COVID?
Spot the Scammers: How to Protect Yourself from Medical Scams
Let’s set the scene: You’re finishing up clinic, maybe finally stealing a minute for lunch, when your phone rings. It’s the medical board—or so it seems. The caller knows your license number, your full name, and insists your credentials have been used in a drug trafficking scheme in another state. They sound serious. You’re a responsible provider and a little spooked, so...
Managing Chronic Pelvic Pain: A Practical Guide for Emergency Clinicians
Picture this: your next patient is a 35-year-old female presenting to the ED with pelvic pain. You biopsy the chart—this is the fifth visit this month. Over the past six months, she’s been coming in two to three times per month with the same chief complaint. She’s had all the tests you’ve ever heard of, some you haven’t heard of, and enough CT scans that you expect she...
Jellyfish Sting in Urgent Care: A Stepwise Guide for Clinicians
It’s a busy summer shift, and someone walks in, limping, pointing to a red, angry welt twisting around their leg. “I think I got stung by a jellyfish.” It’s a classic beach-day-gone-wrong. So—how do you treat a jellyfish sting? Here’s your evidence-based step-by-step guide for urgent care.
The ED Waiting Room Isn’t Just for Waiting Anymore
It’s 10:42 a.m. and the emergency department already looks like an overbooked flight. Every waiting room chair is full, people are standing along the walls, and the triage nurse just flagged you about a patient whose O2 sat is hovering in the mid-80s. Welcome to the new normal in emergency medicine.
Collagen Peptides: Trendy Fad or Science-Backed Supplement?
Collagen supplements. You’ve seen them everywhere: mixed into smoothies, stirred into coffee, hyped on social media. Patients ask about it. Your friend swears it made their skin glow. But is collagen just another wellness buzzword, or is there real science behind the hype?
Helping Patients Navigate Health Insurance Challenges: A Clinician’s Guide
Let’s be real: navigating the U.S. healthcare system isn’t just hard for patients—it’s hard for us too. But while we can’t rewrite the rules, we can help patients work within them.
To Urgent Care or Not to Urgent Care?
A patient walks into urgent care with chest pain, a head injury, or a bleeding laceration that looks like it’s straight out of a slasher movie—unsure whether they made the right choice by skipping the emergency room.
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