{"id":8398,"date":"2017-06-10T08:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:13:08","slug":"whats-favorite-antibiotic-fantasy-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/whats-favorite-antibiotic-fantasy-draft\/2017\/06\/10\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Favorite Antibiotic? A Fantasy Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/mic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8399\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/mic-100x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/mic-100x300.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/06\/mic.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 81px) 100vw, 81px\" \/><\/a>Over on the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Open Forum Infectious Diseases<\/em><\/a> (that&#8217;s &#8220;O-F-I-D&#8221;, not &#8220;Oh-FID&#8221;), the generous people from IDSA and Oxford University Press have allowed me to record\u00a0a series of podcasts, interviewing various interesting people in the ID\u00a0field.<\/p>\n<p>This time, however, I strayed from the usual format and asked my colleague Rebeca Plank to join me in a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\/article\/4\/3\/ofx107\/4084650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;draft&#8221; of our 5 favorite antibiotics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is emphatically <em>not<\/em> to imply that Rebeca isn&#8217;t interesting. On the contrary &#8212; she happens to have one of the most impressive pen collections in all of Eastern Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you may wonder, why did we do this? Several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We sensed a burning need for this this critical educational resource, which as you will see teaches\u00a0fundamental truths about these important therapeutic tools.<\/li>\n<li>One of us wanted to honor the upcoming baseball draft (hint: \u00a0Rebeca couldn&#8217;t care less about baseball).<\/li>\n<li>Someone gave me a\u00a0USB microphone, and it was sitting around doing nothing for way too long.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, mostly we did it for fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/a-face-off-with-dr-rebeca-plank\/id1368469324?i=1000451240041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take a listen!<\/a>\u00a0And while you&#8217;re at it, two questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What are your favorite antibiotics, and why?<\/li>\n<li>What should we draft next?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><em>(H\/T to Joe Posnanski and Michael Schur for the draft idea.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases (that&#8217;s &#8220;O-F-I-D&#8221;, not &#8220;Oh-FID&#8221;), the generous people from IDSA and Oxford University Press have allowed me to record\u00a0a series of podcasts, interviewing various interesting people in the ID\u00a0field. This time, however, I strayed from the usual format and asked my colleague Rebeca Plank to join me in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,8],"tags":[1145,72],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-education","category-patient-care","tag-antibiotic-stewardship","tag-antibiotics"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","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=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}