An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
February 21st, 2015
Fusobacterium, Pharyngitis, and the Limits of Limiting Antibiotics
A paper on pharyngitis in young adults, just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is creating a controversy in the intersecting worlds of primary care and Infectious Diseases. The first author is Robert Centor, of the famous Centor criteria that assess the likelihood of group A strep. He’s been writing about our need to expand […]
February 15th, 2015
Should Antibiotics be Part of End-of-Life Care?
There’s been some truly outstanding work done recently on end-of-life care, and how we deal with it — or more accurately, how we typically don’t deal with it until the very last moment, at which time often many unfortunate decisions and events occur. Here are three I can strongly recommend: Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? is probably […]
February 8th, 2015
Snowstorms-a-Plenty ID Link-o-Rama
A few items to discuss as we settle in for yet another Boston megastorm: The measles outbreak continues to bring forth excellent commentaries on the selfishness of vaccine-refusers, with this one from Frank Bruni one of my recent favorites. Question: Will it take a hospitalization — or even worse, a death — of an American child with measles to stop […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
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