An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
November 25th, 2018
Does Experiencing Childhood Illness Make Someone Stronger? How One Person Turned Adversity into Remarkable Success
Many people growing up with chronic illness become resilient. Whether it’s Crohn’s Disease, or cystic fibrosis, or diabetes, or the sequelae of an accident, or whatever condition they have, they impressively live their life just like the rest of us — occasionally regressing or slowing down only during a flare of the illness. But then […]
November 18th, 2018
HIV and HCV Treatment, Shorter Antibiotic Courses, Malaria-Sniffing Dogs, and Other ID and HIV Reasons to Be Grateful, 2018 Edition
As noted here before, I’m a big fan of Thanksgiving, a great excuse to get together with family and friends, and to eat a gargantuan amount of food.* (*On this last point, non-U.S. citizens will wonder how this differs from any other time we “Americans” get together. Indeed, we are the Land of Giant Portions. Ever […]
November 12th, 2018
Sharing Radiology Images Across EMRs Is Frustratingly Terrible — and It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
In the United States, any person who has tried getting their own (or their patient’s) radiology images from another hospital or practice will find this brief anecdote painful: https://twitter.com/sarahkliff/status/1059518100821983233 Here are several obvious reasons why the CD-ROM — briefly the darling of large-data transfer — is a truly terrible way to share radiology images in […]
November 4th, 2018
Your Next ID Cartoon Caption Contest — Yearning for Your Submission
The nice people who write our hospital’s newsletter interviewed me recently about this blog, and we covered a whole lot of territory. How it got started … inspirations … popular posts … fax machines … why an ID doctor from Mexico asked me about my dog Louie. There was, however, a grave omission — nowhere […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Associate Editor
NEJM Clinician
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