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Ahhh, another Sunday in July. Just finished rounding with two stellar interns. Reminded me of this slide.

Hey fellow healthcare pros, when you start feeling those telltale viral URI symptoms, do you play detective and check for flu or COVID, or do you just conveniently forget to test to avoid the isolation staycation?

MRSA nares screening can reliably be used for de-escalation of anti-MRSA therapy within 28 days of bacterial culture for all patients, including transplant recipients and patients with neutropenia. ⭐NPV = 95.8% across all anatomical culture sites doi.org/10.1093/ofid/o…

Hear me out: IV pumps that alert the nurse and not the patient.

Wow. The Harris team are out of the blocks in lightening quick time with this superb ad

Joe Biden has been one of America’s most consequential presidents, as well as a dear friend and partner to me. Today, we’ve also been reminded – again – that he’s a patriot of the highest order. Here’s my full statement: barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-o…

The GLP-1 era in medicine is just getting started cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

The value of ‘wasting time’ on deep thinking is often overlooked in a scientific ecosystem increasingly tainted by Wall Street’s productivity mindset. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Procalcitonin CRP

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. All roads lead to Rome

I used to think I was rational. Then I read Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning work on human decision-making. He routinely asks 8 questions to expose cognitive traps you fall into daily. Test yourself with these questions (it's the ultimate BS detector for your brain):

Providers find it difficult not to treat once they have a positive U/A or UCx, independent of whether it was appropriate to test and when they know the evidence doesn’t show a benefit in treating asymptomatic bacteriuria. Goal needs to be reducing testing. academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

Yes indeed, the 2nd rule of Internal Medicine: 1) If what you're doing is working, keep doing it. 2) If what you're doing isn't working, do something else: a) Change one thing at a time. b) Unless the patient is crashing, in which case you change everything all at once.

Just wrapped up an incredibly productive trip to India! So excited to see the foresight and energy of India’s leaders. Also very grateful to Madolyn Dauphianis and Chelsie Cintron, MPH without whom I couldn’t really function! natasha hochberg Boston Medical Center Burroughs Wellcome Fund

1/n I am over the moon to announce I received my K23 award looking at the household transmission of influenza in low resource settings!

Happy to see the mRNA platform being used for mpox But, after Covid, I have little hopes that companies like Moderna care about access or equity That's why Africa's mRNA hub is critical! statnews.com/2024/09/04/mod…

So so so proud of Lauren Pischel, MD MSc! I’ve had the good fortune to see her brilliance and compassion as a physician. So excited to see her also become an independent scientist. Thanks for investing in a true star NIAID Funding!!

me to a PGY1 rads resident that fluid collection is highkey sus—is T2 giving hyperintensity & DWI serving diffusion-restriction, or is this all postop gaslighting? them: yeah, it’s an abscess

The arms industry is one of the biggest commercial determinants of health

For the most part, getting older sucks. But it does have its moments - like when you get to see your mentee grow up and becomes a global leader in nutrition and tuberculosis. Here is my man Pranay Sinha teaching all of us! BU-CHART