An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
June 23rd, 2019
Advice to Incoming Subspecialty Fellows — Don’t Underestimate or Belittle Your Interns and Residents
Around a million years ago, early during the first year of my ID fellowship, a medical intern consulted me about an elderly patient with a urinary tract infection. Me: Does she have a catheter? Intern: I don’t know. Me: Has she been admitted before with a UTI? Any cultures? Intern: I think so — wait, I’m […]
August 1st, 2013
Poll: Will There Be A Shortage of HIV Providers?
Over on NEJM Journal Watch — love that new name — I reviewed a paper on the demographics of people living with AIDS in San Francisco. Bottom line — more than half are now older than 50. Implication — that’s so old! First, it really isn’t, unless you compare it to the dismal era 20+ years ago, when […]