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Paul Sax
@PaulSaxMD
Harvard/Brigham Infectious Diseases doctor, writer, editor, educator. Prefer baseball to football, pizza to sushi, dogs to cats, Beatles to Stones.
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Feb 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ever submit a paper to a high-quality, high-impact factor journal and have it rejected, even though the reviews are mostly good and eminently addressable?

Certainly I have. 🙋‍♂️
1/x Wouldn't it be awesome if those reviews could be used by another journal?

Peer review, after all, is a limited but critical resource in academic medicine.

Why should these reviews go to waste? And getting good peer review takes time!
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Nov 29, 2022 • 25 tweets • 13 min read
Way back in April of this year, I received a kind invitation from @PaulPottingerMD to speak about Twitter at this year’s IDWeek.
1/x Image Sounded like fun--plus I could learn from @KrutikaKuppalli and @Payal_Patel, so I readily accepted ...

... little imagining that shortly after IDWeek, this site would be embroiled in various controversies -- about which many others have already weighed in wisely!
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Feb 5, 2022 • 32 tweets • 17 min read
Since talks on Covid get out of date as soon as you click "save", might as well post the talk given this week at @harvardmed Medical Grand Rounds, along with by @k_stephensonMD @SanjatKanjilal and Dr. Ruanne Barnabas
Here's the topic:
1/x Let’s start with the controversy over disease severity, subject that appears both to excite and annoy people (for reasons that I hope to explain)

Also, a reminder that Omicron was a (very unwelcome) 2022 holiday "gift" -- will always link it to Thanksgiving!

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Dec 31, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We HIV/ID clinicians have been dealing with these for years.

Yes it's a long list, but five days will seem relatively manageable compared with chronic ritonavir administration, especially since the effect is quick on/quick off.

1/x ... or should I say *relatively* quick on/off, right @ErinMcCreary? doi.org/10.1093/jac/dk…

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Nov 21, 2021 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
Yesterday I posted a long thread on the extraordinary progress we’ve made in HIV care and research since report of the first cases 40 years ago. Now for Part 2!

(I stopped at around year 20. Here’s the link to Part 1, in case you want to catch up )
1/x When we left off, we'd experienced the thrill of effective combination ART. Our 2 major news magazines featured advances in HIV on their covers! One of these guys was a basketball star, the other an HIV researcher -- see if you can guess which one is which

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Nov 20, 2021 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
The "History of HIV" talk I gave last week actually has this title, which I don't think is an overstatement. Posting it now with gratitude, just in time for Thanksgiving (my favorite holiday -- the gratitude and family part).

(Part 1 thread)
1/x Must start with this 1981 @CDCMMWR report of 5 cases of PCP in Los Angeles. Have already commented on the surprising page 2 placement. There's a story behind it, right @deborahcottonmd? (Later moved to Page 1 on reprints.) Note “blue diazo” slide style

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