This is a continuation of my earlier rant on Medicare/Medicaid. …Earlier this week, it was another patient. Also with osteomyelitis (a bone infection). Doing well however. I still had this patient on antibiotics and wanted to get bloodwork to monitor for potential adverse effects of the antibiotics. Knowing that bloodwork requires an ICD-code for billing […]
Now What?
It has been an eventful summer. I went from signing up to be a junior infectious disease attending to two seasoned ID specialists to being the only infectious disease specialist upon my arrival. I am being bombarded with consults, requests for outpatient consults, requests to join countless committees, and “wouldn’t I take a quick look at […]
IDSA Fellows Meeting: What They Don’t Teach You in Fellowship
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 […]
Dear Friends, Thank You
Dear Friends, I just wanted to thank you so much for your thoughts of me on my birthday! My room-mate apparently spread the word that I was in a “bad mood” – like when am I not in a moody state? Anyway…. I got SLAMMED with consults at work on Friday. SLAMMED! No, I don’t […]