I’ve often written about the low salary of infectious disease (ID) physicians as compared to other medical specialities. Much of this is due to ours being a cognitive field where we think more than we do and to the payment incentive plan being designed to reward volume and procedures more so than medical decision thinking. […]
Recertification Time for Internal Medicine
A few months ago I took my recertification boards for internal medicine (IM). I remembered cramming and doing MKSAP at the end of third year medical residency which coincided with the beginning of first year infectious disease fellowship for my initial certification which I passed on first try. Now here I was ten years later. […]
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 […]
Living in Fear – When Patients Kill Doctors
As humans, we judge the people that we meet even before we know anything about them. Even before we hear what they have to say, we have categorized them in a box – “nice”, “stupid”, “racist”. When we hear bad or unpleasant news, it is tough for us to separate our feelings about that news […]
Ebola In the United States
The inevitable has occurred. While there have been four patients with Ebola physically present somewhere in the United States at some point this summer, today it has been announced that for the first time, a patient has been diagnosed with Ebola in the country. This is an announcement of historical proportions. Never before has Ebola […]
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