HIV and ID Observations

An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
all matters medical, and some not so medical.

September 27th, 2008

Crunchy Frog?

One of the ID fellows just received this curbside consult:

A primary care doctor paged me because a patient of his just discovered a dead frog in the salad she was eating, and wanted to know what to do.

How about, “Don’t eat it!”

But there are definitely some things in our field you just can’t look up — not even in UpToDate.  And as a nerdy male of a certain age, I had the immediate impulse to ask if the salad dressing on this salad was lark’s vomit, but refrained.

You think Cardiologists get questions like these?  I think not.  They don’t know what they’re missing.

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