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Back to Work

2 January, 2008 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

Technically, I have four more days before I strap on the pager again and get an insane amount of calls as I return back to work. But, the holidays may as well be over for me. My next break won’t be until the end of June, well maybe mid-April if you count the research weeks […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Abx Stewardship, Healthcare, ID Fellowship, MRSA, Pneumonia, UTI

ID Consults Roster #3

9 December, 2007 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

In this third month of inpatient service, I saw about 45 new consults. Still not as much as that first month from hell. BIODEFENSE none BONE/JOINT Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Citrobacter freundii, Enterococcus & methicillin resitant Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis Pseudomonas aeruginosa, diphtheroids, & methicillin resistant Staphyloccocus aureus ischial osteomyelitis Right great toe osteomyelitis Enterococcus, diphtheroids & methicillin […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Consults, ID Fellowship

Back to Reality

9 December, 2007 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

The past few months of infectious disease fellowship have been arduous. This is my new reality. I feel I’m doing all that I can to just keep afloat. I finished residency thinking “finally I can narrow down my breadth of knowledge”, but I have since realized that infectious diseases is still a very broad speciality […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Boards, ID Fellowship, Medical Education

ID Consults Roster # 2

16 September, 2007 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

Second month ID consults roster. Saw about 30 new patients. What a relief from last month! Now you understand how I was able to go watch the Brazil-Mexico football friendly at Gillette stadium. 1. BIODEFENSE none 2. BONE/JOINT Escherichia coli & Proteus mirabilis right ischial osteomyelitis Citrobacter freundii sacral osteomyelitis Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus right […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Consults, ID Fellowship

ID Consults Roster # 1

13 September, 2007 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

I have decided to keep an ID consults roster. Essentially a log of the inpatient consultations I have seen during my infectious diseases fellowship training. Here, I will break them down by diagnosis. It is possible for one patient to have several infectious diseases diagnoses. The number after the diagnosis indicates unique patients. For example, […]

Filed Under: Medical Training Tagged With: Consults, ID Fellowship

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