Thank you π
Thank you π
New start.
"She was gram positive for bacteria".
When the FRCPath exam doesn't go your way.
5% of med students are from working class background. This is one the of poorest levels of representation across professions.
It is intellectual sleight of hand to use a few high performing state schools (frequently in affluent areas) to suggest medicines class diversity is improving.
No David, still there just deactivated while have a substantive job application in process haha!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Short-term vs long term abx treatment for nocardia infections
#OncID #idsky
From beaches to bathtubs - water quality in the #UK is not what it should be!
#IDSky #EpiSky
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Microbiology: Antman (obviously)
Microbes may be small but they can be mighty. Slept on as a specialty but can be clutch with the septic patient with peculiar history
also often disproportionately quite good looking like paul rudd
Time to Staphylococcus aureus blood culture positivity is a useful marker for infective endocarditis
This retrospective cohort study of >1700 cases of SAB suggests that if TTP > 13 hrs, the patient is unlikely to have endocarditis (NPV 96%, 95%CI 95-97)
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... #IDSky
Culturally competent care is so important - we must do better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yes, we are.
My baubles haven't dropped yet. Might explain my high pitched voice.
4 homs, 4 tequila shots(X3), 4 hang overs.
Omg amazing!
Working with paediatricians quite closely currently and they are absolutely so much better at this than adult doctors. Low threshold to start - but negative cultures at 48 hours & the antibiotics are stopped.
I think Supacell is one of the best superhero shows I've seen in a long time.
Yeah it was ok it's just the training class - so will see haha.
Cheers pal, not a bad result for 6 months!
CrossFit a go when I was in better shape and well, today was it. (Twitter saw it first)
I just did my first CrossFit foundation class - over COVID I gained significant amounts of weight and that pic on the right was me at my heaviest 99kg in Feb, I restarted the gym on May 15th and have cleared just shy of 20kg in just over 6 months.
I promised myself I'd give
Oh fuck, just realised people can see likes on this platform.
I am 5'7 going on a date with a 6'5 man next week.
The bus wasn't running so walked to Waterloo. Glad I did.
Bearded man ecstatic to be back in the 5am club.
I had to delete that previous reply - going to try and keep this professional.
I keep getting ghosted after telling people I'm an infection specialist on Tinder.
They must envisage an exciting career working with dangerous imported pathogens.
When the reality is leaving passive aggressive e-notes to stop the meropenem and anidulafungin.
A lecture theatre full of people, at The STEM Village Immunology Symposium in Manchester
Yesterday was such a special day, being surrounded by LGBTQ+ immunologist from around the world, as well as allies. Over the years, many people have asked why we need these events, so hereβs a couple of reasons 1/π§΅
#LGBTQSTEM #Immunosky π§ͺπ³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
Hahaha.