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ID Consults Roster #10 – 12

7 May, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

By this time in the year, my personal log system had totally broken down. I still have total numbers of new consults I saw each month documented in my personal files, but I wasn’t very good with documenting the reasons for consultation. Of note, our program had begun to require official logs of consults done […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Consults, ID Fellowship

ID Consults Roster #9

7 May, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

As I neared the end of the first year of fellowship, I got quite lazy in keeping tabs on my consults. As such, with each subsequent month, my roster became less and less detailed. I still did the consults and required follow-up of course, just neglected to keep tabs for my own insight. This month, […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Consults, ID Fellowship

Swine Flu (H1N1 Influenza A)

1 May, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

Tune in to any media channel and you will be bombarded by news of a new and deadly influenza virus. When this started about a week ago, I was underwhelmed. I’m less underwhelmed now as I do believe this is something newsworthy, I’m just not alarmed or frightened as I know what flu truly is. […]

Filed Under: Infectious Diseases Tagged With: Hand Hygiene, In The News, Influenza, Medical Education, Microbes, MRSA, Pneumonia, Prevention, Staphylococcus

IDSA Fellows Meeting: What They Don’t Teach You in Fellowship

20 April, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

I recently attended the 2009 IDSA Fellows Meeting in Hilton Head, South Carolina. It is a meeting designed for fellows interested in clinical infectious diseases. It provided a wonderful opportunity to interact with leaders in the field. Over the course of two and a half days, we were introduced to the nuts & bolts as […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Clinical Practice, Gratitude, ID Fellowship, Why ID

Taking Responsibility for One’s Own Health

15 April, 2009 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

She walked into the office appearing as if she was chewing something. Only a few years older than myself she had already lost her teeth and her mouth was puckered and sunken. I looked at her. It had been several months since our first visit together. There had been many missed appointments. Where should I […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Healthcare, Personal Responsibility

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