🎙️ New Episode of The Host Response:
“The Vulgar Display of Recently Acquired Knowledge”
We’ve all seen it: the colleague who drops a shiny new fact like it’s ancient wisdom.
Let’s talk about performative expertise and why it stings (and seduces) us all.
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🎙️ New from The Host Response: The Bundle
This episode features a new format—part roundtable, part reflection—where we talk about what’s shaping ID thinking right now.
Featuring guest host, Dr. Brooke Fraser.
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Check out this FirstCallID Session: APPROACH TO DIARRHEA IN ADULTS
ID consults don’t have to be messy. Here’s a clean framework:
👉 Onset
👉 Risk factors
👉 Investigations
👉 When to scope
💭 Best viewed before your next diarrhea consult—you may not get much warning.
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New FirstCallID session available: Approach to Diarrhea in Adults
A concise framework for the ID consult — onset, risk factors, investigations, and when to consider endoscopy.
Watch here: youtu.be/bltg5oFhKQk
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Check out our latest #FirstCallID session on peri-prosthetic joint infections, where we walk through the key "components" of a PJI consult…
…and somehow avoid the pun “truth or DAIR” (almost).
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📺 New from FirstCallID: Peri-Prosthetic Joint Infections
We cover an approach a PJI consult:
- Key surgical + symptom history
- Clues to PJI
- Categorization of PJIs
- Optimization of collaboration with ortho
Watch: youtu.be/5HXOU_QNWp8
or at firstcallid.ca
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📺 New from FirstCallID: Non-Resolving Skin & Soft Tissue Infections
When cellulitis isn’t improving, it’s easy to reach for broader antibiotics. But there’s a better way.
Here is a clear, structured approach:
🧩 DDx
🚩 What to rule out
💊 Next steps
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The Host Response Ep 5: The Long Game (aka. Anticipated Regret)
You can’t undo a choice — but you can pause and ask: How will I feel if things go awr?
Think ahead before regret hits.
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✈️ Still thinking about illness after travel?
The geography is big, you're often sifting through a DDx of things you vaguely remember, and you're terrified of missing the "obvious" or severe infection.
This 12-min video can guide your approach.
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🎙️ New from FirstCallID: Illness After Travel ✈️
Seeing a febrile patient back from abroad?
This talk walks through a practical ID consult approach to illness in the returned traveller—what to ask, what to order, what not to miss.
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If you’re waiting to be 100% sure in ID… you’ll wait forever
Ep 4 of The Host Response is about the uncertainty baked into our decisions—and why pretending otherwise doesn’t make us better
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🎙️ Ep 4 of The Host Response now out!
In ID, we live with uncertainty—diagnosis, evaluation, treatment.
This episode is about making decisions without pretending to be sure.
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It’s not about memorizing every interaction.
It’s about noticing the meds that change the terrain:
🛡️ Immunosuppressives
🫀 QT-prolongers
🔁 Interactions
💉 Meds that shift infection risk
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts or on Spotify
What would you add to the list?
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An ID consultant doesn't just scan for antibiotics.
They notice the other meds that raise infection risk, complicate treatment, or create dangerous interactions.
Steroids. Warfarin. DOACs. QT-prolongers.
Ep 3 of The Host Response covers the non-antibiotics that matter
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🧊 Not all post-op fevers are infectious.
🧠 whether or not they are, the ID consult can be the turning point.
Learn how to approach each case with clinical reasoning, not reflexes.
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POST-OP FEVER?
🩺 Start with a framework—not just Ancef.
This #FirstCallID episode walks through an approach to post-op fever—covering 🔍 diagnostic considerations, 🧠 structured assessment, and 💡 practical clinical tips.
Watch: youtu.be/b0HvN7Pyas0
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asking an ID doc to treat “infection” is like going to the library and asking for “a book”
this episode drills down on a simple truth often missed in ID: defining the syndrome is essential.
available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music.
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We can't treat "infection." We treat syndromes.
Episode 2 of The Host Response breaks down the most underrated move in ID consultation: clearly defining the syndrome.
It’s how we turn chaos into a plan.
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I’ve heard the main purpose of a 2-year ID fellowship is to learn how to manage Staph aureus bacteremia.
Or… you could just watch this 10-minute primer.
(Okay, we’re only scratching the surface — but it’s a solid start and a clear framework.)
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🦠 New FirstCallID episode is live:
Staph aureus bacteremia — a common ID consult, but never routine.
What do you ask? What do you look for?
Does everyone need a TEE? A PET scan?
This session walks through the approach, step by step.
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🧠 The Host Response is now on more platforms!
A podcast about thinking, learning, and practicing infectious diseases — not just the grey zones, but the growth, the joy, and finding your way.
🎧 Ep 1: “Open”
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In ID, the answers aren’t always clear — but the growth is real.
🎙️ The Host Response explores the thinking, questions, and quiet wins that shape how we get better at infectious diseases.
Ep 1: “Open”
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If you’re new to ID, it can feel like no matter what you suggest, it’s wrong. And honestly… sometimes it is.
Here’s a tool to help you get your footing.
First in our How to… series: How to Do an ID Consult.
Check it out & share if useful.
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