Floyd Fest is Sold Out! Want tickets? I have 2 single-day tickets for Friday 23rd available at face value. Tickets are $108.55 each. If you would like a hotel room, a room at Courtyard by Marriott Blacksburg is available at face value for $151.00.

Congratulations to UVA ID's brilliant and indefatigable Dr. Amy Mathers on this important grant and initiative! Dr. Mathers is a world expert on antimicrobial resistance and we are so fortunate to have her as a friend and colleague in UVA ID!

Light in darkness. Thanks to our students for lighting the way.

This is kind of unique, I think — from UVA President Ryan: "My wife, Katie, and I are opening our home—Carr’s Hill—to students every afternoon this week from 2-5pm for those who wish to come together and hang out with each other and a dog or cat, or two."

I make one mistake and I’m on thin ice….I was trying to be healthy by reheating Salmon from the night before and now I may never graduate from interventional fellowship.

The ACC announces all football teams will wear UVA helmet decals and all home games will hold a moment of silence before the game.

Washington Post Senior Editor Marc Fisher took time out of his busy schedule to crap all over student journalists at the University of Virginia for being humane in the wake of a mass shooting dynamicsofwriting.com/2022/11/17/was…

If you work in the ED in Chicago get comfortable with recognizing this ekg. Patient was found down outside and obtunded. 2 classic findings here.

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Being Black in a predominantly white work environment makes you hypervisible. In my eval, the comment “I don’t see you very much,” was made. Another colleague said, “We don’t want to bug you. It’s helpful if you’re close by.” Y’all. I’m going to do my best to articulate this 1/

Medical gaslighting is real. For two weeks, I’ve experienced numbness and tingling on my left side. It became so frightening that I went to the ER. They tried to convince me that I was just stressed and anxious. The nurse suggested that it could be radiation from cellphone use.

Genuine question: is it legal for a patient to record their physician (or any HCP) without their consent in the hospital? Seeing tons of vids on TikTok of pts recording their doc in the ED very clearly in secret with name/ID badge clear in the shot.