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infectedterran.bsky.social
ID doc in Philly. Lover of all things infectious, medical education, ethics and Starcraft.
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I'm missing the context but this is solid advice lol

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Insanity today @newyorker.com

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When I feel overwhelmed and need to just get a good cry in, I look up the ending of Schindler's list on YouTube. Gets me in the feels every time.

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RFK Jr. spouted dangerous vaccine falsehoods on national TV. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Here's what the data actually shows. 🧵

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So inspired by our graduating residents. I am so fortunate to have played even the smallest part in their training.

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Because I was a bioethics course with a few philosophers, I actually got to make an incredibly specific group of people laugh.

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A meme for an incredibly specific crowd that I made a few years ago but that still cracks me up

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Holy fucking shit...

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New term for "irrational antibiotic use just dropped" @bradspellberg.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34191681/

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What's the current meta on PO abx for bacterial meningitis? Linezolid for strep pneumo seems a reasonable thought @bradspellberg.bsky.social

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A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR!!!

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We all have our role to play and I think I am a pretty good clinician educator. But man I suck at writing papers and avoid like the plague. People who are good at it, how did you become that way?

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This is tragic beyond words. What a nightmare for this poor family.

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Music right now kinda sucks. There's a few acts that are killing it (Magdalena Bay and Deafheaven come to mind) but nothing else really pushing the envelope. Recycled and stale. Prove my geriatric millennial bias wrong and drop some recs.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Let's fucking gooooooooooo!!!

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So much I want to read, so little time to do it, medicine and otherwise.... Ars longa, vita brevis...

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I’ve been describing for decades how germ theory denial and eugenicist attitudes are baked into antivax beliefs. None of this is a surprise. After all, if you can convince yourself that germs don’t cause disease, then it’s easy to believe that vaccines don’t work and are therefore unnecessary.

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Hypothesis: how someone parks their car in a crowded lot tells me everything I need to know about their personality.

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What should be the punishment for sending a swab of an ulcer for culture? Tarring and feathering? Defenestration? @bradspellberg.bsky.social any thoughts?

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Amazing!

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