Infectious disease & hospital medicine doctor I Clinician educator | Views & puns = mine (my employer just isn’t that funny, tbh)
Jul 1, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
For all the new fellows out there, you’re not alone – sometimes it really does feel like you've become an intern all over again.
Some survival tips: A🧵
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Respond as often as possible to consult requests with “Happy to help!” It sounds cheesy, besides being the right thing to do, it takes no more time to be collegial than it does to be rude.
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Mar 10, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Need-to-know updates re: COVID from the experts, courtesy of infectious disease grand rounds @UCSF_ID yesterday:
(Caveat: Much is changing minute-to-minute, and this was as of 3/9/20 at 9 am PST)
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As a little background: Like SARS and MERS, this new virus is a coronavirus. Coronaviruses also cause the common cold – there are lots of them.
SARS-CoV2 is the pathogen that is causing today’s outbreak. The disease SARS-CoV2 causes is called COVID-19.
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