1. PASSED MY ID BOARDS!! You are now looking at a board certified ID physician! This ends a decade long journey in medical training as a Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG). This was a challenging & fulfilling journey, with many people to thank. My journey as an FMG, in a thread 🧵
Unpopular opinion: using AI scribes for notes makes the good note writers worse and bad note writers passable to make it all a homogenous mush of words. A note should intend to communicate thought process. Homogenization makes it all sound the same. We can do better.
The mandate is clear. We need strict regulations now. The list of legislations is obvious: - regulate procalcitonin - ID only for Karius - harsh sanctions for calling urine sample “dirty” - tariffs for saying “ua positive for uti” - ID consult for all bacteremias #voteID
