I confess…I have been a bit lackadaisical in my scanning through the journals I receive each month. This point was driven home to me yesterday when I went to find room on my desk to put some work and realized …
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Infections
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This past Sunday, July 15, I had the pleasure of participating in a radio interview on WOKV, Jacksonville, FL, the largest, most listened to talk radio station in Northern Florida. Here is the link to the audiostream: http://wokv.media.streamtheworld.com/audio/save_leg_save_101730761.mp3 The show …
Read more →I recently came across some fascinating data which breaks down the number of outpatient prescriptions written by podiatrists for all different classes of drug in 2010. Unlike various surveys that have been done over the years by different magazines, this …
Read more →A few weeks ago my old Podiatric College roommate sent me a link to a fascinating YouTube video. I then sent it to a few friends who, in turn, posted it on a few other blogs so it has become …
Read more →I wish all of my readers a healthy, happy and prosperous 2012. With this post I am trying something a bit different. In the past I usually waited to put up a post until I come up with an “ah …
Read more →One of the most frequent questions I am used to be asked is about when antibiotic prophylaxis should be used in performing foot and ankle surgery. I have an entire lecture on this topic where I go through the data, …
Read more →One of the trickiest issues in prescribing linezolid for patients with MRSA or VRE infections is the potential for a drug-drug interaction, leading to serotonin syndrome (SS), with various serotonergic psychiatric medications. It seems that every pharmacy computer system in …
Read more →As I have mentioned in a previous post there are a number of journals I follow to stay abreast of developments in the ID, microbiology and antibiotic world. For updates on the latest in antibiotic development from pre-clinical through clinical …
Read more →The more I read the infectious disease literature the more my diet becomes limited. It seems that new reports of contaminated food are published regularly. It gets to a point where you don’t know what you should and should not …
Read more →This week I will be giving a talk to the Podiatric Assistants at the APMA National Meeting in Boston on the topic of office infection control. I believe that this is an area which does not receive enough attention since …
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