Infectious disease (ID) conferences tend to rejuvenate me despite the information overload. This year, IDWeek in Washington DC was no different except for the impact of social media particularly Twitter. The last time I attended IDWeek in New Orleans ( 2016), one of the themes was gloom. We were struggling to fill ID fellowship spots. […]
What Can Infectious Disease Physicians Learn from Hospitalists?
I just returned from IDWeek in New Orleans where one of the running themes was on the future of the infectious disease specialty. In brainstorming what we could do differently one question revolved around what could infectious disease physicians learn from hospitalists who have become an attractive specialty in just two decades. The New England […]
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, […]
ICAAC San Francisco Style
Golden Gate Bridge in the Fog I just returned from a medical conference in San Francisco. It was my first time attending the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), hosted by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and showcasing the latest-breaking science from premier international researchers. Unlike the Infectious Disease Society of America […]
Good morning Viagra!
I was in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) recently for the IDSA Annual Meeting. While resting in the hotel watching TV a really animated, bright, and uplifting advertisement starts. It’s a man in a business suit leaving his home, dancing, skipping and even hop-skotching his way to work. It made me think. A child does that […]