30 min
An alternative for cancer patients in need of urgent medical care TheoryLab
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Cancer patients undergoing treatment often need urgent medical care, because they become sick from the cancer and/or the cancer treatment. They might be experiencing pain or gastrointestinal issues. They might have a high fever. In these cases, many patients visit an emergency room, and there can be downsides to that.
Arthur Hong, MD, recently received American Cancer Society funding to explore whether outpatient cancer urgent care clinics could be a better alternative to emergency rooms in some cases. Dr. Hong notes: “Cancer urgent care clinics are designed to handle many problems that are commonly the result of cancer and its treatment such as nausea, vomiting, weakness, fevers, and pain. Cancer urgent care visits are usually much more convenient, have shorter waiting times, and are faster and much less expensive than the emergency room.”
Arthur Hong, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Population and Data Sciences at UT Southwestern.
4:42 – On what it’s like to find out in a phone call that your grant has been funded (Dr. Hong was recently awarded a Clinician Scientist Development Grant from the ACS)
6:11 – How the pandemic has impacted his clinical practice and research program
9:24 – Why cancer patients visit the emergency room and…
11:46 – …some of the downsides to them visiting ER for treatment
15:19 – What are cancer urgent care clinics? How common are they?
20:36 – On the advantages of cancer urgent care clinics as an alternative to the emergency room
26:22 – The best-case scenario for how his work unfolds over the next 5 years
28:50 – A message he’d like to share with cancer patients, survivors and caregivers
Cancer patients undergoing treatment often need urgent medical care, because they become sick from the cancer and/or the cancer treatment. They might be experiencing pain or gastrointestinal issues. They might have a high fever. In these cases, many patients visit an emergency room, and there can be downsides to that.
Arthur Hong, MD, recently received American Cancer Society funding to explore whether outpatient cancer urgent care clinics could be a better alternative to emergency rooms in some cases. Dr. Hong notes: “Cancer urgent care clinics are designed to handle many problems that are commonly the result of cancer and its treatment such as nausea, vomiting, weakness, fevers, and pain. Cancer urgent care visits are usually much more convenient, have shorter waiting times, and are faster and much less expensive than the emergency room.”
Arthur Hong, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Population and Data Sciences at UT Southwestern.
4:42 – On what it’s like to find out in a phone call that your grant has been funded (Dr. Hong was recently awarded a Clinician Scientist Development Grant from the ACS)
6:11 – How the pandemic has impacted his clinical practice and research program
9:24 – Why cancer patients visit the emergency room and…
11:46 – …some of the downsides to them visiting ER for treatment
15:19 – What are cancer urgent care clinics? How common are they?
20:36 – On the advantages of cancer urgent care clinics as an alternative to the emergency room
26:22 – The best-case scenario for how his work unfolds over the next 5 years
28:50 – A message he’d like to share with cancer patients, survivors and caregivers
30 min