{"id":620,"date":"2009-11-28T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T13:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=620"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:29:48","slug":"icaac-idsa-alone-again-naturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/icaac-idsa-alone-again-naturally\/2009\/11\/28\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAAC-IDSA — Alone Again (Naturally)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pcvb_con_hall\"Just received my latest copy of Infectious Disease News<\/em><\/a>, that large glossy review magazine* that arrives approximately monthly in my mailbox.<\/p>\n

As usual, I turned right to Dr. Theodore C. Eickhoff’s always-thoughtful editorial, this month entitled “Reflections on the 47th IDSA Meeting.”\u00a0 He writes:<\/p>\n

It was a much more “user-friendly” number of attendees, in \t\tcontrast to the almost 15,000 people that attended the joint meeting last year. \t\tI heard absolutely no one express a desire to have another joint IDSA-ICAAC \t\tmeeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can see his point — the combined meeting in Washington last year drew over 15,000 participants, and at times was just too gargantuan to manage.<\/p>\n

But if I could for a moment be the lone voice arguing for a joint meeting, here’s my pitch:\u00a0 Last year, tons <\/em>of people\u00a0 <\/em>in ID went to ICAAC-IDSA, even people who rarely go to either meeting.\u00a0 This year, not so much — which might explain the “somewhat muted and subdued” tone Eickhoff found at IDSA this year in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Either that or what the Yankees were doing against the Phillies.<\/p>\n

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(*Don’t call it a “throwaway<\/a>!”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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