{"id":3942,"date":"2013-04-02T15:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2015-06-04T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:33:48","slug":"banner-day-for-id-on-physicians-first-watch-and-a-big-pitch-to-sign-up-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/banner-day-for-id-on-physicians-first-watch-and-a-big-pitch-to-sign-up-now\/2013\/04\/02\/","title":{"rendered":"Banner Day for ID on Physician&#8217;s First Watch, and a Big Pitch to Sign Up Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/Various-Qs-from-James-Bond1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3948\" title=\"Various Qs from James Bond\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/Various-Qs-from-James-Bond1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Every weekday morning, right around the time the rest of my family gets up, the smart people at <a href=\"http:\/\/firstwatch.jwatch.org\/\">Physician&#8217;s First Watch<\/a> send me an email listing the top medical news stories of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my delight yesterday when the following were deemed worthy for specific mention:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coccidioidomycosis!<\/strong>\u00a0Valley fever cases <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm6212a1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">on the rise in the USA<\/a>. You too can learn how to spell and pronounce it (only wimps say &#8220;cocci&#8221;), provided you practice, practice, practice&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Mycobacterium abscessus!! \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Looks like person-to-person transmission <em>can<\/em> occur, at least according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(13)60632-7\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">this paper in the <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(13)60632-7\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Lancet.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Q fever!!!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>The Centers for Disease Control have issued\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/rr6203a1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">guidelines<\/a> on diagnosis and management of <em>Coxiella burnetii <\/em>(Q fever),\u00a0thereby fulfilling what was undoubtedly a burning national need. (Sarcasm used with the utmost affection, CDC.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not only was I delighted by this threesome, but\u00a0confess\u00a0a bit surprised as well. After all, it&#8217;s not as if these are garden-variety ID problems; in fact, if all three of these diagnoses showed up in an ID case conference, it would be one heck of a meeting. By chance, one of these &#8212;\u00a0<em>M. abscessus &#8212; did<\/em> get discussed at our conference this week, and boy was I prepared. Thank you, PFW.<\/p>\n<p>All of which is a way of putting in a plug for Physician&#8217;s First Watch, which is concise, free of charge, and well <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.jwatch.org\/ecom\/fwatch\/fw_full.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">worth the 5 seconds it takes to sign up for it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even when the coverage does not involve the World&#8217;s Greatest Medical Specialty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every weekday morning, right around the time the rest of my family gets up, the smart people at Physician&#8217;s First Watch send me an email listing the top medical news stories of the day. Imagine my delight yesterday when the following were deemed worthy for specific mention: Coccidioidomycosis!\u00a0Valley fever cases on the rise in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,10],"tags":[720],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","category-research","tag-physicians-first-watch"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}