About This Blog

For the Benefit of Mr Kite, there will be ID tonight. Infectious Diseases! Antibiotics! Viruses and Bacteria and Fungi! Oh my! Exclamation marks!!!!!! No trampolines, nor will any band be playing at 10 to 6. And Henry the Horse died of the Strangles. Sorry. That's the problem with infections.



The endless excitement that is the daily practice of Infectious Diseases in a Portland teaching hospital! The need for meta data!



Every day I make infectious disease rounds in the hospital and see at least one cool case or learn something new. 25 years and I still do not know everything. Why be selfish and keep all of that wonder and knowledge to myself? This blog will be a mostly qod account of days events, a cool ID case, a referenced pearl, and a minimum of 1 horrible, yet ultimately feeble, attempt at humor.



While usually written in the present tense, the cases are not necessarily current and all identifying information is altered or obscured as long as it is not absolutely pertinent to the case. Can't have a female with prostate infection for example.



I write these at night or in spare moments. There is always someone who will quibble about spelling, punctuation or grammar. My response is live with it. It's a blog, not Mandel.

And the opinions on this blog are mine and mine alone.



Read and listen to more of me at my multimedia empire linked below.



The first 3 years blog posts have been collected and edited and are available as The Puswhisperer, Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Really. Perfect for the pus lover in your life.

Because The World Needs More Mark Crislip (tm).

Flies in the Ointment: Essays on Supplements, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (SCAM).

A carefully selected and edited compendium of my best blog posts from sciencebasedmedicine.org. The sections have been edited for redundancy, updated for 2017, and classified into themes including my influenza rants.



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Disclosure: Mark A. Crislip, MD, has disclosed the following relevant financial relationships:

Received income in an amount equal to or greater than $250 from: Pusware LLC

Have a 5% or greater equity interest in: Pusware LLC (owner)

