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February 22nd, 2022
A Personal Tribute to Dr. Paul Farmer — Who Made Everyone Feel Important
Paul Farmer’s unexpected death this weekend has all of us who knew him reeling. This just should not happen to someone so generous, so important, and so visionary about helping others — especially others who, due to being born in impoverished life circumstances, can’t help themselves. This is not fair at all. We’re heartbroken. The […]
February 18th, 2022
A Return of Antiretroviral Rounds — What Regimen Would You Choose?
Years ago, back in the pre- and early internet days, one of the most popular features in the newsletter Journal Watch AIDS Clinical Care was something called Antiretroviral Rounds. We’d present a case, then have two expert discussants weigh in on what they would do. The link above is a case from ancient history — […]
February 12th, 2022
The Rise and Fall of Ivermectin — 1 Year Later
Here’s a confession few board-certified ID doctors will make — there was a brief period when I thought ivermectin could very well be an effective treatment for COVID-19. It wasn’t when the in vitro data first came out. Therapeutic concentrations were not achievable in humans. Nor when the anecdotal reports started pouring in, and sometimes […]
February 4th, 2022
Prior COVID-19 Is No Guarantee of Immunity
I’m no immunologist — a fact made vividly obvious to me several years ago when asked to teach a weekly medical student section that included cases and problem sets. The challenge was that the course combined immunology and microbiology. I was on much firmer ground with the microbiology than the immunology, the latter often a […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Associate Editor
NEJM Clinician
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