Why You Probably Have a Lot Less to Fear From the Latest Superbug Than You Think
By COLIN SON, MD Infectious disease is the most hyperbolic of all medical fields, at least when the media gets ahold of such. Right now we are to fear a new avian influenza virus. Previously there was...
View ArticleShould Doctors Keep Patients’ HIV Status a Secret?
By Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD At my infectious-diseases clinic in Southeast Washington, I work with some of the city’s most indigent patients. Some don’t have jobs, a home, a car or enough to eat. But...
View ArticleNew Interventions Needed to Halt the Growth of “Superbugs”
By Brad Spellberg, MD How do you tell the family members of a critically ill patient that their loved one is going to die because there are no antibiotics left to treat the patient’s infection? In the...
View ArticleDad Has the Flu and There’s a Baby at Home
By PHILIP LEDERER, MD At 6:30 AM, I kissed my 14-week-old son Joe on the forehead and headed off to work at the hospital. By 3 PM I was back in bed with a hacking cough and a fever. I had influenza....
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Got an Infection? Good Luck Finding an ID Doctor
By PHILIP LEDERER, MD BOSTON, Ma. — It was Christmas Day. I was on call at the hospital and was waiting for my wife and 6-week-old son to come so we could eat lunch together. She was bringing kimbap,...
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Why You Probably Have a Lot Less to Fear From the Latest Superbug Than You Think
By COLIN SON, MD Infectious disease is the most hyperbolic of all medical fields, at least when the media gets ahold of such. Right now we are to fear a new avian influenza virus. Previously there was...
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Should Doctors Keep Patients’ HIV Status a Secret?
By Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD At my infectious-diseases clinic in Southeast Washington, I work with some of the city’s most indigent patients. Some don’t have jobs, a home, a car or enough to eat. But...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Interventions Needed to Halt the Growth of “Superbugs”
By Brad Spellberg, MD How do you tell the family members of a critically ill patient that their loved one is going to die because there are no antibiotics left to treat the patient’s infection? In the...
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Dad Has the Flu and There’s a Baby at Home
By PHILIP LEDERER, MD At 6:30 AM, I kissed my 14-week-old son Joe on the forehead and headed off to work at the hospital. By 3 PM I was back in bed with a hacking cough and a fever. I had influenza....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Got an Infection? Good Luck Finding an ID Doctor
By PHILIP LEDERER, MD BOSTON, Ma. — It was Christmas Day. I was on call at the hospital and was waiting for my wife and 6-week-old son to come so we could eat lunch together. She was bringing kimbap,...
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