Some tips for effective infectious disease consultations DO be courteous and appreciative no matter how ridiculous you think the consultation is. Consults are your lifeline. DO identify the question(s) asked of you. DO answer the question(s) asked of you. DO try to change a curbside into a formal consultation. You’ll be amazed at what was […]
How to Consult Infectious Disease
As an infectious disease specialist I often help in difficult medical and surgical cases. I am the Gregory House, M.D. of medicine, the expert diagnostician who knows the nuances of various antibiotic treatments and the varied processes of infection. My skill is a cognitive one. Unlike House, real infectious disease specialists do not tend to […]
Medical Bureaucracy
I get to attend a lot of meetings in my current role, meetings that medical school nor residency nor fellowship prepared me for, meetings with people who don’t have a clue about medicine but either control the money, make the policies, or care solely about the hospitals image. Meetings about value based purchasing or outcome […]
Balamuthia mandrillari Transmitted through Organ Transplantation
Bala-what? Balamuthia madrillari! Admittedly, this amoeba rarely shows up as a cause of infection even for infectious disease specialists like myself. Infections by Balamuthia mandrillari are of the sort that feature only on esoteric board examinations. I have never seen it. This amoeba was first identified in the 1990s and to date has probable caused […]
ID Consults Roster #10 – 12
By this time in the year, my personal log system had totally broken down. I still have total numbers of new consults I saw each month documented in my personal files, but I wasn’t very good with documenting the reasons for consultation. Of note, our program had begun to require official logs of consults done […]
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