When I was a first year infectious disease fellow there was a lot of chatter about measles. A young student from India had just been diagnosed. It was another of the smattering of measles cases in Boston in that time-frame. By the time I came around though, the faculty was tired of hearing fellows presenting measles cases at the […]
Infectious Disease – The Coolest Medical Specialty
I may just be biased but the coolest medical specialty out there by far is infectious disease (ID). It has been a while since I sung its praises on my path to being an infectious disease specialist here, here and here so this is a very overdue blog post. Everybody in medicine knows that the […]
Secretly Recording Doctors
Increasingly, I realize that I’m being audio-recorded when I’m interacting with my patients at their hospital bedside. I say realize, because the majority of the time I’m never asked. Sometimes it’s the patient recording. Other times it’s a family member in the room. In both scenarios I get upset. I feel violated. When it’s the […]
America’s Ebola Mayhem Continues
An elderly Black woman goes to visit her family in Jamaica. Soon after returning home to the United States she has a fever and presents to the Emergency Room for evaluation. She is triaged into a solitary room where no-one takes her vitals and no-one evaluates her. Instead, the Emergency Room physician places a call […]
Ebola Madness
The death toll of this year’s Ebola epidemic, the worst in history, has crossed the 4000 mark. Cases are expected to double every three to four weeks in the West African countries most affected. Despite the increased global response to the problem in the wake of two American medics acquiring the infection back in August, […]
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