Shout out to legendary ID doc Robert Bettiker who will be throwing out the first pitch at Pride Night for the @phillies.com in June! @templeid.bsky.social

I’m lucky enough to have 2 giants of my field of Infectious Diseases as mentors and friends (medical school, residency/fellowship, and for life!)

Bennett Lorber and Allan Tunkel at Temple Medicine Grand Rounds yesterday.
@templeid.bsky.social

oh crap—accidentally included orthopedics on the ID team signal group chat about stopping the ancef

Oh boy @templeid.bsky.social , this brings back memories of days rounding with a certain guest attending

Fantastic talk about the diagnostic challenges of Tb but also the areas we can improve within the system to ensure communication & different types of bias don’t effect our work up and follow up.

For the hardest working fellows in the game this holiday season, we had a @templeid.bsky.social family lunch. #IDSky #MedSky

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🎉🥳HUGE congrats to our former fellows - all passed ID boards! We never had a doubt and are so proud! 100% 🤯board pass rate for 14 years now! When your program is academically rigorous but still values work/life balance =sweet spot! #IDSky

Would reimbursement be an issue? I remember in residency Pulm rarely did thora’s b/c IR got paid so much more so they figured why take on the risk of complications etc

Super proud of @templeid.bsky.social faculty Dr. Spivack presenting today’s Grand Rounds on climate change and ID! #IDSky

Haha no not at all. That’s the seasoning and develops during the smoking process. Brisket looks like that! - def not burnt🥲

We take work parties seriously. #IDSky #Brisket

We formally meet twice a year. But we often are using it as a nice summary session! We fix /adjust things as they come up. Lucky to have an environment where faculty & fellows can feel comfortable & say, hm this isnt working right can we do this instead? So these meetings are smooth!

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Just wrapped up another great PEC (program eval committee) & it’s amazing to work in such a collaborative program. Always keeping the program fresh & adjusting to meet the needs of the fellows that year. We’re lucky to be able to do this! #IDSky

The best day of the year - #MatchDaySky we are thrilled to welcome these incredible docs to our team! Another amazing year! #IDSky

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Happy Match Day! We cannot wait to see who will be joining us next year! Good luck to everyone! #IDSky

Tell me your an ID doc without telling me…
Big bag of condoms & lube hanging out in the clinic work room. 😜😍 #IDSky #SafeSex

Smell of urine or poop is not an indication for antibiotics /sign of infection. Sometimes stuff just smells! 👃

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Today, as an ID doctor, I used a tuning fork, on a real live patient. Many thanks to #DrRavenBoone for hoarding her old med student supplies & being able to bring it into work for me. ID docs - we really do it all. #IDSky

The ads also really changed. I was getting ads for anti-vaccine or anti-science support.

We’ll call this Thursday Tail-Tales- let’s meet some TempleID pets. This is Cal (left) and Blue (right).

Their fun fact is they are food obsessed. They’re fed on a timer and they’ve memorized the timing so they start meowing up a storm when it’s time to eat. #TheBest #PetsofID #IDSky

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What should our 1st official post be? Vaccines save lives? Name
Your favorite antibiotic? Re-intro to our amazing fellowship program? Harm reduction love? Why ID is the best job? Pet introductions? 🐶There’s so many options! #IDSky

This was a great primer to learn about the good place.

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You know we’re hip. We’re cool. 😎