An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
December 16th, 2018
ID Doctors Are Lousy Golfers, and Time to Pick Your Favorite Cartoon Caption
Some might wonder how people who take care of patients, who deal with illness and suffering on a regular basis, can find humor in medicine. Alternatively, one could take the opposite perspective — with so much misery around all the time, how could we survive without humor? Clearly the folks at The BMJ are in the […]
December 12th, 2018
Two Weeks of Attending on the ID Consult Service, with One-A-Day ID Learning Units
For those of us who don’t do inpatient medicine all the time, the “blocks” doing inpatient Infectious Diseases consults are a stark reminder of just how complex and challenging the case material can be. Think about it — if a hospitalized patient has a straightforward ID problem, we are not getting involved. No one consults […]
December 2nd, 2018
As A Strategy for HIV Prevention, Disabling the CCR5 Gene in Embryos Implanted in HIV-Negative Mothers Makes Zero Sense
One of the great joys of being an ID/HIV specialist is looking back at how far we’ve come in HIV prevention and treatment since the beginning of the epidemic. Here are a bunch of things we know about HIV prevention, listed roughly in order of when we learned them — and forgive me if this is an […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Associate Editor
NEJM Clinician
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