Data compiled by researchers at Yale and publicized by the New York Times suggests that some medical specialities, including infectious disease, lean heavily Democratic, while others such as surgery, lean heavily Republican. Only 23% of the infectious disease physicians sampled were registered with the Republican party. I am not surprised. The report also suggests that the specialties […]
Coding Sepsis
September is sepsis awareness month and I want to discuss coding sepsis. First I will introduce the concept of medical coding and the definition of sepsis. Skip to half way down for specific coding sepsis examples. What is Medical Coding? Medical coding is the transformation of diagnoses and procedures into a set of universal alphanumeric […]
Historic United Nations General Assembly Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance
Today at the United Nations General Assembly Meeting, all 193 member countries are set to agree to combat antimicrobial resistance, “the biggest threat to modern medicine”. I couldn’t be happier. Antimicrobial resistance has been well-known to scientists since the first antibiotic, penicillin, was created. But it has only been in the last few years that […]
Risky Fluoroquinolones
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a black box warning for the class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones which includes the popularly prescribed Levaquin (levofloxacin), Avelox (moxifloxacin), and Cipro (ciprofloxacin). The warning advises that the serious side effects associated with this class of antibiotics “generally outweigh the benefits for patients with acute sinusitis, […]
Paying Off Medical School Loans
I paid off my medical school loans within five years of completing medical training. I did this on a salary of an infectious disease specialist, a salary that is lower than that of other physicians, a salary that today remains below the total amount of student loan that I accrued. My loans were all private […]
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