In this month, I saw about 40 new consults. BIODEFENSE none BONE/JOINT Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus L2 osteomyelitis Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus L4-L5 osteomyelitis Chronic osteomyelitis Sacral decubitis ulcer/osteomyelitis not otherwise specified Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus chronic osteomyelitis of distal tibia Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus finger septic arthritis ESBL producing Escherichia coli foot osteomyelitis Jaw […]
ID Consults Roster #4
In this month, I saw about 30 new consults. BIODEFENSE none BONE/JOINT Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic knee infection (2) Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus diabetic foot osteomyelitis Presumed methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus C2-C4 prevertebral space infection Chronic osteomyelitis CARDIAC Group B Streptococcus presumed endocarditis Coagulase negative Staphylococcus pacer infection DERMATOLOGIC Escherichia coli peri-rectal abscess Methicillin […]
Women Doctors: Waste of Money? I think not!
A friend forwarded me an article from the British Medical Journal titled “Are There Too Many Female Medical Graduates? Yes”. My friend is a Ghanaian woman who is in the research years of an MD/PhD degree at Harvard. She was none too pleased. I didn’t get riled up because objectively the points raised are grossly true. […]
I Don’t Like It Here!
Lately, I’ve been thinking of what it means to be a woman in terms of having a career, gender roles, and childbearing and I don’t like it. Several articles and unsolicited comments have set me on this path, namely a recent article titled Women Doctors: Waste of Money? in BusinessWeek that is actually based on […]
Dying of AIDS in 2008 in the United States
Since the mid-1990s when combination antiretroviral therapy became available in the United States, HIV has quickly become a chronic condition. “Like diabetes” we often say. AIDS is a problem of “Africa” and other “overseas” nations, the general consensus goes. Yet, in the United States, tens of thousands of people are newly infected with HIV on […]
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