{"id":2,"date":"2008-02-13T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T20:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T21:28:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHIV and ID Observations\u201d started in March 2008, with a goal of commenting on interesting Infectious Diseases, HIV, and other medical and not-so-medical news from admittedly one particular perspective. The site is hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massmed.org\/\">Massachusetts Medical Society<\/a>, which is much more famous for publishing the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/a><\/em> and the <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwatch.org\/\">NEJM Journal Watch<\/a> <\/em> email alerts. I\u2019m delighted to bask in their much greater glory and will, of course, frequently cite and comment on pieces from both publications. From its inception, \u201cHIV and ID Observations\u201d has been plagued by the need for a clever title, and suggestions would be most welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, certain details on all clinical anecdotes are changed so that individual patients cannot be identified.<\/p>\n<p>Comments to posts are, of course, encouraged. It is a moderated forum, meaning that editorial staff review comments before they are posted and that we need to know you are a real person and not some spam-generating HIV\/ID-obsessed Bot (hence the requirement for an email address). We will never publish your email address, and inclusion of your name is optional. We will also not publish comments that do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personally attack, abuse, or bait others<\/li>\n<li>Make the same point over and over again<\/li>\n<li>Self-identify as a patient of our bloggers or one of their colleagues (this is a no-no in the post-HIPAA world)<\/li>\n<li>Quote more material than is necessary to capture the point being made, or fail to attribute quoted material \u2014 please provide the link<\/li>\n<li>Use comments as a venue for self-promotion or sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Paul Sax is an independent author and all views and opinions are his own. NEJM Group is proud to feature perspectives from a variety of contributors across the medical community. Browse our most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/browse\/nejm-article-type\/perspective\" target=\"_blank\">perspectives<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those who want to subscribe, here is the form:<br \/>\n<div class=\"emaillist\" id=\"es_form_f0-n1\"><form action=\"\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2#es_form_f0-n1\" method=\"post\" class=\"es_subscription_form es_shortcode_form  es_ajax_subscription_form\" id=\"es_subscription_form_69d36fa4d5c23\" data-source=\"ig-es\" data-form-id=\"0\"><div class=\"es-field-wrap\"><label>Name<br \/><input type=\"text\" name=\"esfpx_name\" class=\"ig_es_form_field_name\" placeholder=\"\" value=\"\" \/><\/label><\/div><div class=\"es-field-wrap\"><label>Email*<br \/><input class=\"es_required_field es_txt_email ig_es_form_field_email\" type=\"email\" name=\"esfpx_email\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"\" required=\"required\" \/><\/label><\/div><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_lists[]\" value=\"9a70fa313f1e\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_form_id\" value=\"0\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"es\" value=\"subscribe\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_es_form_identifier\" value=\"f0-n1\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_es_email_page\" value=\"2\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_es_email_page_url\" value=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/about\/\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_status\" value=\"Unconfirmed\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"esfpx_es-subscribe\" id=\"es-subscribe-69d36fa4d5c23\" value=\"5a5f1a7134\" \/>\n\t\t\t<label style=\"position:absolute;top:-99999px;left:-99999px;z-index:-99;\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span hidden>Please leave this field empty.<\/span><input type=\"email\" name=\"esfpx_es_hp_email\" class=\"es_required_field\" tabindex=\"-1\" autocomplete=\"-1\" value=\"\" \/><\/label><input type=\"submit\" name=\"submit\" class=\"es_subscription_form_submit es_submit_button es_textbox_button\" id=\"es_subscription_form_submit_69d36fa4d5c23\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/><span class=\"es_spinner_image\" id=\"spinner-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/plugins\/email-subscribers\/lite\/public\/images\/spinner.gif\" alt=\"Loading\" \/><\/span><\/form><span class=\"es_subscription_message \" id=\"es_subscription_message_69d36fa4d5c23\"><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHIV and ID Observations\u201d started in March 2008, with a goal of commenting on interesting Infectious Diseases, HIV, and other medical and not-so-medical news from admittedly one particular perspective. 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