Recently, I read a tale in the Washington Post titled “The surgeon said he could fix the injured arm. He had an odd definition of ‘fix’” in which the author described his harrowing 8 year surgical complications odyssey to repair a left distal radial fracture and elbow dislocation acquired when he fell off a ladder […]
Infectious Diseases in the News
My Twitter feed today is alive with so much infectious disease related news that I’m having a major ID NERD moment. Therefore I’m sharing! New AIDS-like Disease in Asians, Not Contagious This first news item made me wonder if I had fallen behind in my medical journal reading because it’s the first I am hearing […]
Surviving Sepsis – A Word to the Wise…
I just read a really awful heart-wrenching story in the New York Times today. It’s the story of Rory Staunton, a 12 year old boy in New York City who presented to his pediatrician’s office on a Thursday ill with fever, vomiting, and leg pain; was sent to the emergency room at NYU Langone where […]
When Religion Puts you at Risk for Infectious Diseases
There’s a letter to the editor in the June 15th, 2012 edition of Clinical Infectious Disease that speculates on a link between ritual cleansing and brain-eating amoebae fatal infections. It comes to us from Pakistan, where in 2010, a single small private hospital recorded the deaths of 20 devout Muslim men due to Naegleria fowleri […]
Occupational Syphilis
In true “infectious disease – nerd” fashion, I am overly excited about an article I’m reading. It is très cool, though maybe not for the sufferers. The March 20th, 2012 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine published a letter on Occupational Syphilis following Scalpel Injury. It immediately caught my eye as syphilis is not one […]
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