{"id":661,"date":"2010-01-01T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T16:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=661"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:25:59","slug":"top-10-stories-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/top-10-stories-of-the-year\/2010\/01\/01\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Stories of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-662\" title=\"father_time5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/01\/father_time5-183x3001.jpg\" alt=\"father_time5\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" \/>No end-of-year wrap-up is complete without a &#8220;Top 10&#8221; list, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/aids-clinical-care.jwatch.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/2009\/1228\/1?q=featured_ac\" target=\"_blank\">Journal Watch: AIDS Clinical Care<\/a><\/em> is no exception.<\/p>\n<p>This year we did two lists, one chosen by the <a href=\"http:\/\/aids-clinical-care.jwatch.org\/top_stories\/editors_choice.dtl\" target=\"_blank\">Editors<\/a>, the other a numeric tally of what&#8217;s read on line by the <a href=\"http:\/\/aids-clinical-care.jwatch.org\/top_stories\/most_read.dtl\" target=\"_blank\">Readers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;When to start&#8221; issue was the top story from the Editors.<\/p>\n<p>The big hit from Readers was the case of occupational exposure from a source patient who refused testing.\u00a0 (I posted it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/index.php\/occupational-exposures-and-hiv-testing\/2009\/06\/13\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> this past June.)<\/p>\n<p>Not much overlap between the two lists, reflecting I think several issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Editors are choosing from scientific advances; the readers from what they find clinically useful or interesting.\u00a0 They can be the same thing, but they don&#8217;t have to be.\u00a0 (Hardly doubt many were counting on IL-2 to enter the clinics this year, for example.)<\/li>\n<li>What people read on-line may be different from what they consider important.\u00a0 Some on-line stuff is just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o\" target=\"_blank\">fun<\/a>.\u00a0 Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixx.com\/videos\/9580453\/youtube_silent_monks_singing_halleluia\" target=\"_blank\">funny<\/a>.\u00a0 Or <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/28\/when-the-doctor-gets-sued\/\" target=\"_blank\">controversial.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The on-line readership is given a big boost from <a href=\"http:\/\/firstwatch.jwatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Physician&#8217;s First Watch<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope you enjoy, and Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No end-of-year wrap-up is complete without a &#8220;Top 10&#8221; list, and Journal Watch: AIDS Clinical Care is no exception. This year we did two lists, one chosen by the Editors, the other a numeric tally of what&#8217;s read on line by the Readers. The &#8220;When to start&#8221; issue was the top story from the Editors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,10],"tags":[44,423,498,736,742],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-hiv","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","category-research","tag-aids","tag-hiv","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-policy","tag-post-exposure-prophylaxis"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}