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, […]
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 […]
JCAHO Descends Upon Us
Sometime in the past couple of months JCAHO paid an unannounced visit to my hospital. I should have known something was up when I saw our Chief Medical Officer up on one of the medical floors talking excitedly to an old man in a suit. My naïve self assumed he was interviewing a new physician…no […]
Welcome to Medicine aka the Licensing & Credentialing Nightmare
The job search is finally over. It was a long and arduous process and if I could start all over, there would be many things I would do differently. I settled. I chose the practice that made the most sense economically, financially, and legally. I forego my desires and most importantly a chance at a […]