It’s only been a little over a month, but I have confirmed that the world of private practice American medicine is not my cup of tea. I’m not one to be influenced by money and I’m not really an entrepreneur so I would fashion things to please me. One might see my fictional solo practice […]
New Doc on the Wards
It’s not easy being the new doc on the wards. This time around seems more frustrating than the transition from fellow to attending, even though that transition was fraught with worry as I had inadvertently found myself in a solo practice. I had become comfortable in my surroundings. I knew the way the hospital worked. […]
Letting Bygones Be Bygones
When I was in my second year of ID fellowship making that decision not to pursue a third year of training, I diligently read about what to look for and what to avoid when searching for that first job out of residency/fellowship. I did not want to make any grave mistakes. Ha! After carefully researching, […]
Life as a Typical ID/HIV Physician
Medscape conducted several anonymous online surveys of physicians and came up with a snapshot of the typical infectious diseases (ID)/HIV specialist. It’s pretty cool to see how those of my specialty compare to others. ·     34% of ID/HIV specialists who responded to the surveys were women. ·     58% of the ID/HIV specialists were born in the United States; an additional […]
Fungal Meningitis Linked to Epidural Steroid Shots in the News
137 cases, 12 deaths, 10 states and still counting… You don’t have to be an infectious disease expert to be aware of this very alarming outbreak. Public health personnel and infectious disease physicians have been hard at work and have narrowed the source of this multi-state infection to a likely contamination event occurring at New […]
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