It's a potpourri of Infectious Diseases with tips from expert, Dr Paul Sax, MD, Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. We discuss the man flu, the flu vaccine, travel medicine, malaria, lyme disease, post lyme syndrome, chronic lyme, shingles, cellulitis, abscesses, antibiotics, c diff, antibiotic associated diarrhea, the dangers of fluoroquinolones, why doxycycline is awesome, and more! Told you it was a potpourri. Dr Shreya Trivedi joins Matt and Paul as guest host.

Show Notes, MCQ by Shreya Trivedi, MD
Edited by Matthew Watto, MD
Infographics and cover image by Matthew Watto, MD

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Time Stamps:

00:00 Announcement
01:38 Intro
03:46 Picks of the Week
06:47 Guest bio
08:47 Getting to know our guest
15:40 Flu vaccination
19:54 Barriers to the flu vaccine
23:34 Can you give the flu vaccine to an ill patient
24:14 Man flu
26:27 Travel Medicine
30:35 Tick bites
33:49 Lyme serologies
35:38 Lyme prophylaxis
37:37 Chronic lyme disease and post lyme syndrome
38:55 Penicillin and antibiotic allergies
41:48 Fluoroquinolones and adverse reactions
45:24 Should antibiotics be given after an I&D of an abscess
49:34 Antibiotic associated diarrhea, C diff
52:10 Probiotics, stool transplantation, and C diff
54:50 Shingles, recurrent zoster, complications, and the new subunit vaccine
61:45 Using salad tongs at a buffet
63:04 Take home points
64:26 Outro

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