One thing I enjoy about ID consults is you can never predict what golden nugget of history you would get from asking a relatively benign question. Today's classic Me: Tell me about your cats? Patient: Well they are cute but they have all been having diarrhea for the past month Me: Tell me more📝🤓

Need some inspiration and commiseration? Check out the @idsainfo.bsky.social podcast with @matih-id.bsky.social and @drdemetre.bsky.social. Comforting to hear these heroes speak from the dark place, still looking up towards the light. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, marvel, etc.

I feel personally attacked 😆

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

Once upon a time I grew up in Florida. I drank slurpees from 7-11 and burned my bare feet on hot asphalt. 1/9

Bad news for all the Make-A-Wish kids who go to Disney World in between chemo treatments. 😭

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

My daughter: here I have a doctor’s note. Teacher: this says, “Sorry she’s late, the barista at Starbucks started crying so our drinks took forever.” My daughter: … Teacher: … My daughter: she IS a doct- Teacher: Go to class.

Trying not to let the Hospitalist on the phone hear me googling in the background…

Is the best thing about the @wintercourseid.bsky.social week the amazing lectures? Getting to know ID colleagues better? Probably. But this Campfire Hot Cocoa during the break tastes a little like magic…

Infectious disease doctors watching them mess with public health and USAID

Skepticism is good. Blindly ignoring decades of data? Not good.

THE CHOCOLATE CHIPS 💀 #IDsky

Great reminders about rabies info! I get these questions all the time 🦇

Day 10 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Sneezed while my cat was in my lap. Ever since she’s been giving me this look.

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent free. Study: Majority Of U.S. Population One Disappointing Sandwich Away From Complete Mental Breakdown — theonion.com/study-majori...

$100/night hotel: hi. we have you for 3 nights. checkout’s whenever. enjoy the 24 hour gym & pool that smell like chlorine & feet, in that order. unlimited breakfast - you can eat costco sausages til you die for all we care $275/night hotel: OHHH, so his royal highness expects FREE WIFI, does he???

Day 9 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Day 8 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Bacteria more sensitive Boastful gesture 🤝 MIC drop

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Geriatrician: Don't send that cup for a UA/UC. Patient has no urinary symptoms. Please consider alternative diagnoses.

This wrecks me—every single time.

Happy thanksgiving! Antibiotics as Thanksgiving dishes: a thread. #IDSky

Day 7 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.

Broke: Antimicrobial stewardship Bespoke: Antimicrobial tailoring

Day 6. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Wake up babe, a new microbiology meme just dropped #IDSky #MicroSky #MedSky

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

😂😂😂 it’s funny because it’s true.

Day 5. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

5 authors I’ve read 5+ books by: Chuck Palaniuk Elizabeth Berg Dav Pilkey Beverly Cleary John Green

Day 4. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2 #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

I think adults should get a personal pan pizza for reading books too

Happy Antibiotic Awareness Week from FirstHealth Infectious Diseases!

This place has big coffee shop inside a bookstore vibes and I’m here for it

Day 3. I said what I said. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2 #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

An ID rounds classic: FUO #IDsky #medsky #oneofmyfavorites

Posting this because these images are making the rounds again. Plus, someone told me it was the best thing I ever did, and I was flattered. p.s. only possible since I've been directly involved with several papers that meet these exact criteria, so mea culpa blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...

Continuing to day 2! Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2 #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

Thanks @dralicehan.bsky.social ! Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1 #Books #BookSky 💙📚 #BookChallenge

🎶 Angelica, please tell RFK Jr John Adams doesn’t have a real job anyway. 🎶 #IDsky Real “if you don’t take a temperature you can’t find a fever” vibes here!

Can’t even about infectious diseases today. Instead, here’s a picture of my beautiful but mentally ill cat.

Hi Bluesky, I’m here to chat about infectious diseases. Hello friends!