It doesn’t take long in the practice of medicine, indeed in the training for the practice of medicine, to learn humility. To understand our limits in our understanding of a disease process, in our abilities to heal patients, and in our own importance in the grand scheme of things. Yet as physicians and as experts […]
Living in Two Different Worlds in the Era of COVID-19
March 1 2020 I’ve been back from my Thailand/Cambodia holiday two weeks now. Opened up my work email to find a number of emails related to my hospital’s preparedness for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Reassuring. Jumped right back into a busy clinical service. Checked my temperature daily and avoided the gym (more so […]
Travelling In The Time of Novel Coronavirus
January 1 2020 After all the well wishes and reflections with family and friends upon the arrival of a new year full of hope, a Leap Year at that, I plant my pepper seeds, determined to get a headstart in my garden this year and settle in for travel planning. I’m off from work for […]
When Pneumonia Kills Healthy Adults
Christmas Eve this year brought news of ESPN reporter, Ed Aschoff, dying that day, also his 34th birthday, after being treated for pneumonia. I did not know of him, but soon I was reading his Twitter profile. Earlier in the month he had shared the following: It’s hauntingly sad to read that now. I can […]
Why Infectious Diseases (#WHYID)
Recently on ID Twitter, there was a collective engagement to describe why any medical trainee these days should pursue Infectious Disease as a career (#WhyID). I have myself over the years mused over this thought always concluding that Infectious Disease is the coolest medical specialty. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who […]