First Day of Infectious Disease

[blw]

I work for an Infectious Disease doctor and since I’ve showed him this video, he had me play it for all his students as part of his “orientation “ 😂😂😂😂 he loves you!

[EricBliesener]

The Apgar score is a quick way for doctors to evaluate the health of all newborns at 1 and 5 minutes after birth and in response to resuscitation. It was originally developed in 1952 by an anesthesiologist at Columbia University, Dr. Virginia Apgar, as way to address the need for a standardized way to evaluate infants shortly after birth.

[EchosTackyTiki]

You won't be breaking in to check for pets yourself, you'll be sending Chase, Cameron, and Foreman to do it for you.

[THORYCHUM]

I'm dying at all the House M.D. nods. It's so fitting for infectious medicine.

[jasminepadgett]

So true!! Have to be thorough on infectious disease. 😂 An ID attending told me me he had a pediatric patient that he couldn’t figure out. He kept asking the family if they had any pets at home. He asked them multiple times and they said no. He later discovered that they had a cat home. When he asked about the cat, they responded “Oh she’s not a pet. She’s family.” ☠️

[plaggscamembert]

"My histories take so long, the cultures wait on ME to finish" the way this was said gave me chills 😂😂😂😂

[jamiemiller]

My husband is in the hospital and thank God for the infectious disease doctor because he's THE ONLY doctor out of a dozen who actually listened to my husband and finally found out what was wrong with him. It was staph on his heart valve and it has to be replaced.

[johanedberg]

"You won't ask if patients have pets at home, you'll be breaking in and checking for yourself" House M.D. reference? (;

[saralee]

As a Virologist and lead consultant for our Infectious Disease department. I approve of this message. It may be different in the states, but we are like medical private investigators. I need to know everyplace you have been, who you have seen recently, what you've purchased, where your family went and who with, what you have eaten, where did it come from, how was it prepared, do you live near or with animals, what kind, where did they come from, who have you slept with, who have they slept with, the list goes on. We are as invasive as a prostate exam. Please be truthful. We do not care about your sexcapades on a pig farm in Cambodia, we simply want to figure out which wee organism is killing you, so just tell us... we will find out anyway, it's just preferable whilst you're in the hospital and likely treatable, not at the autopsy. Cheers!

[tasiecabrera]

one time during my infectious disease rotation, i found myself asking "so you have chickens in your compound? how many are they? do they go inside the house? what are their names?" the last bit was me being half-asleep.

[MichiganCrimeTime]

OMG! I will NEVER forget my rotation in ID. I seriously learned so much, how to be more compassionate, how much I needed to fight for my patients. When I finished I was so exhausted and empty, but had a profound respect for my patients.

[plaggscamembert]

"Have you ever taken a history so thorough the patient filed a restraining order against you?"
I died 💀🤣

[hannahkim]

I love reading ID notes as a RN. Found out about my patient's previous 3 lives and what jobs they held! 😂

[rak]

My dad is an ID specialist and this is EXACTLY him. He even corrects his students and interns wordings individually. They’re soooo passionate about histories!

[S_Carol]

On the first appointment I had with the ID doctor, he spent over an hour just taking history. The next visits he still took at least 15min to just take the history since the last visit. I was also keeping symptom diaries (for fever, pain and anything I thought relevant). He had a whole folder on me by the time we figured out what I had. Once, he literally called me at 10pm because he was home revising it and suddenly remembered some disease he needed to check for. Never met such a dedicated doctor, but I think he ended up working himself to exhaustion a few years later.

[patriciatoomingtheplantpar]

You fill out that form where it says family history, takes you an hour to fill it out and then they ask, with the chart in front of them, any family history of diseases (me, closes eyes, holds breath)

[dguerra]

Working in pharmacy for so many years, I really admire ID. They're the closers.

[aeri_taylors-version]

this reminds me of dr.house getting his team to break into his patients’ houses to get their history

[slc]

This is so true. The most thorough ones are from the I.D. docs. They need to know things they've been exposed to, changes in activities, places they've been, and other items. Public Health relies on infectious disease to determine if there are things spreading in communities.

[kinseylise]

Honestly, this is perfect lol. The best doctor I've ever had ran over the appointment time by 40 minutes taking the most thorough history of my life. I was digging up old notes on my phone and checking my tracking notebook for some of those questions. He noticed tremors I didn't realize I had and I've never felt more confident in a doctor's advice before.