One of the ID fellows just received this curbside consult:<\/p>\n
A primary care doctor paged me because a patient of his just discovered a dead frog in the salad she was eating, and wanted to know what to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How about, “Don’t eat it!”<\/p>\n
But there are definitely some things in our field you just can’t look up — not even in UpToDate<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 And as a nerdy male of a certain age, I had the immediate impulse to ask if the salad dressing on this salad was lark’s vomit<\/a>, but refrained.<\/p>\n
You think Cardiologists get questions like these?\u00a0 I think not.\u00a0 They don’t know what they’re missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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