An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
December 29th, 2025
How the Z-Pak Took Over Outpatient Medicine
Chances are, across this great land of ours, right at this very moment, someone is coughing, or sneezing, or struggling with a sore throat, or some combination of the above, and taking the antibiotic azithromycin. Or they might be just fevering, with no discernible cause, and still they’re taking azithromycin. They might have obtained it […]
December 17th, 2025
What Use Is the Physical Examination in Current Medical Practice?
A very interesting, quite scholarly perspective appeared in the NEJM last month called, “Strategies to Reinvigorate the Bedside Clinical Encounter.” Drawing plenty of attention on social media, it elicited the usual hand-wringing from clinicians who bemoaned the way modern medicine has evolved — away from direct care of patients and toward an ever-expanding reliance on […]
December 10th, 2025
Dengue, Malaria, HIV Cure, and Others — First Cold Snap of the Winter ID Link-o-Rama
Absolutely brutal temperatures arrived up here in Boston over the past week, just in time for the peak holiday season, and we’ve even had a dusting of snow. Here’s proof, in case you don’t believe me. Of course, this isn’t stopping teenage boys from walking to high school in just shorts and sweatshirt hoodies, which […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Associate Editor
NEJM Clinician
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