As an RN I swear this can be damn accurate. The Infectious disease doctor walks in like "House" cuts to the chase and pinpoints the issue. They just know. . .and I highly respect them
Almost 15years ago, my right knee randomly swelled to like 3x it’s size and I couldn’t walk on it. Went to a dozen orthopedic doctors who all wanted to cut me open for a miniscus or acl or some other mechanical part in my knee. Then one of them, the last one, told me he was going to refer me to an infectious disease doctor, before cutting me open. Mind you, this is after each of these doctors referred me to another. Went to the that ID doctor and within about 5min he said “I’m 99% sure you have Lymes, we can either do a spinal tap to be sure or we can start you on 30days of IV Rociphen”. I went with the IV. Turned out he was spot on. He was also the head of the board of infectious disease in NYS as well as being the premier expert on Lymes as NY is the epicenter of Lymes disease cases. Knee healed up, my gaps in time stopped happening and I’ve been good ever since. They really are bosses.
Glad you got better! I really need a a serious rule-out of the more rare versions of Lymes. I had no clue that NYS is the hotbed of Lymes! Grew up (mostly) in NYS & am back. If I don't ALREADY have Lymes, now I'm AFRAID I WILL! 😵
@@redwoodrebelgirl3010 Go see an infectious disease dr. They’ll likely diagnose you correctly or rule it out. Lymes ain’t a joke. I was losing 10-15 seconds of time randomly. Very frightening.
@@kw2519 back in mid 2020, I had all of the symptoms of Lyme disease: swollen joints, slight fever, massive fatigue. But because I had a fever of 100 degrees, my doctor insisted it was covid despite none of those symptoms lining up and refused to get me a Lyme disease test "because it wasn't safe for me to go out in public." Eventually when my knees reached the size of softballs I went to the emergency room and essentially had to threaten to cough on the staff until they gave me a blood test. Sure enough, it was Lyme. Now I may have residual arthritis for the rest of my life and I can't help thinking that idiot woman dragging her feet for a week may have been a factor.
@Layla Flora The best example would be when I was using a saw on a rail to cut a sheet of plywood, I would start the cut and suddenly I’d be at the end of the cut. Like a flash forward. I had no memory of the last 15 seconds. I walked straight to my bosses office, told him what happened and promptly went home to schedule an appointment with my dr.
@@chrislaws4785 yea... We're real duuuumb... We also leave out or forget details that might be crucial but we don't know that.... It's why I apologise profusely to it and doctors helping my dumb ass with a problem
ID doctor here....I showed this to my partner and we cracked up. "The Closer", I like it. Although at times feels more like The Necromancer when they want me to figure out a diagnosis without any cultures😊.
Lol or the cultures were drawn after starting antibiotics and are only one bottle with a high chance of contamination and you aren’t sure if you need to treat that pan-resistant staph epi because you have no other cultures to compare it to. But they always manage to get a Urine culture in a nonpregnant patient with no urinary symptoms and lots of epithelials.
You guys saved me. Thank you ❤ They couldn't figure out what I had. I was in the hospital Had fever for 2 weeks. Did all the labs. Found out I had sepsis.
The Wizard would also be appropriate i think. You guys rock. Question: do ID specialists need to know molecular virology, bacteriology, mycology or immunology? Or any cellular biology in order to understand pathogenesis? Asking for myself. Thanks.
When I had necrotizing facciitis in my left shoulder and chest wall my surgeon wasn't sure what was going on and requested an emergent consult with "the closer" he came in asked a few questions looked at her and said I want a CT. She said she wanted to send me to MRI. They went toe to toe for a couple of minutes and said, "You consulted me because you weren't sure what this was. I'm almost 100% positive that this is flesh-eating bacteria (necrotizing facciitis) because I watched a colleague die from this less than six months ago because he came to me too late because he tried treating it himself. I want her in CT as in yesterday." Needless to say I ended up in CT and my surgeon gave me the confirmation that it was in fact necrotizing facciitis and that I had approximately 6 hours left to live, 9 tops without immediate surgery and aggressive antibiotics and that I would possibly lose my left arm. I lost neither my life nor my arm thanks to "the closer".
@Abdul-Rahman3207 It's a serious Group A strep infection that once it gets into an open wound or sore it starts killing off fatty and skin tissue and gets into your bloodstream, causing sepsis and death within as little as 24 hours.
Just went through this. Necrotizing fasciitis in my upper, right thigh. Thought I was going to lose my leg, but plastic surgery and ID worked miracles! I still have my leg minus half of my thigh….had to be taken to the OR three times in three days and I don’t remember most of it. Was on a ventilator for a week or so, it was a horrible ordeal. Ended up being hospitalized and going through acute care rehab, then home healthcare and I’m still healing. But I’m alive and I have both my legs. All thanks to those wonderful docs.
I got sick with a fever for 2 weeks, started vomiting and my liver was damaged. The doctors at the hospital had no clue what was going on, did heart scans, liver scans, x-rays, blood tests, and still no diagnosis. The ID came in and within 10mins told me I had a severe case of mono, he was right.
Same here. The first week I just stayed in cause I didnt have any severe symptoms so I just tought I had a cold. The last day an a half before I checked into the hospital I could even drink water. Though mono is pretty common here so I got diagnosed within like a day. It was a wild week in the hospital for sure.
@detroit7543 mononucleosis, caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, found in the herpes family. Commonly referred to as kissing disease, since you can only get it from saliva from someone who's had it. Once you've had it, you're infectious for it for another 18 months or so. Luckily, you probably won't get it again (idk if it has a secondary thing it can cause many years later). Incubation is about 4-10 weeks. If you get it as a child (below 10 or so), you get a severe cold. If you're older, it's really bad throat pain, grey/white plaque at the very back of the mouth, difficulty drinking and eating, fever, sweating a lot, extremely swollen tonsils, weird speech and clearly enlarged lymph nodes, especially the neck. Can take many weeks to heal. Usually can't be helped by medicinal things and has to be left alone, but in severe cases you'll need an IV hydration drip if you can't drink.
@detroit7543 Infectious mononucleosis - it's transmitted through saliva (it's nicknamed "the kissing disease" because of that), and it absolutely sucks. Had it when I was about 8 years old. Felt extremely sick for about a month straight. Also, I've never had my tonsils taken out. They swelled up so badly that I couldn't eat solid food without it being extremely painful. The only good thing about it is that once you get it, it usually just lives dormant in your system forever. So, it's almost impossible to be "reinfected" with it. Glad I got it as a kid, because I can't imagine the life-interrupting nightmare it'd be as a working adult.
@@tickley42 Nah. I hate it when he initially misdiagnoses the patient while arrogantly insisting he's right, only for something dramatic to happen which makes him realise otherwise. Considering this happens in every episode, as far as I've seen, it's not the right show for me
I loved my infectious disease doctor. Bounced around a few different places and then I walk into his office where he rolls around in his chair, plate of brownies in hand and says, “I assume you have cats. It’ll be lymphoreticulosis. Here’s some antibiotics. WHOO!” Best trip to the doctor ever.
@@thefirstray-ci4ym It's also known as cat scratch fever. For a few it can cause lymph nodes to swell, among other things. An IDD can diagnose this easily.
An infectious disease doctor saved my dad's life. The ER tried to send him home with a blood infection but my mom insisted something else was going on. They sent in the infectious disease doctor and she diagnosed my dad with vibrio vulnificus. My mom's persistence and that lady's knowledge saved my dad's leg and his life. She was amazing.
I had a patient, infant girl, with frankly purulent nasal d/c. "If it oozes, culture it," so I did. Grew out escherichia Fergusonii. Her father had recently visited a customer who kept his pet ostriches in the warehouse. True story.
I wish more docs would culture. When I was a kid every thing got cultured, then they would test for antibiotic resistance so you would get the most effective antibiotics. It just makes sense. Especially today when travel is even crazier.
My mom's life was saved twice by one of them. First time, it was a severe infection lodged in her cystic kidneys. He reduced the infection, recommended a double nefroctomy, which in the end was a single one, plus everything the kidney was attached to, and the second was a very dangerous OR bug. He had to make a decision very quickly and blinded, because there was no time to lose. The man was RIGHT! He has retired since, but for me he was one of the few who could call themselves "DA BOSS".
My favorite classes in graduate school (biology and biomedical science) was Parasitology and Medical Microbiology. Both were taught by an ID MD. His stories of his cases were amazing! I learned so much in that class.
This is what happens after the first twenty-five minutes; the patient starts to get better, only to dramatically crash and get worse due to another complicating factor that the previous symptoms were masking.
Reminds me of the time I was an intern in the ED and was asked to check on a pt who pushed their call button, walked into the room and the pt asked if they have found out what was wrong with them while practically coughing up a lung, told them we are still waiting for labs to come back and as soon as we know you'll know, as I walk out the room infectious disease was there putting up a quarantine sign on pt room for TB. . . 😶😳🤬
Just came here to say how often zoonotic diseases don’t even make the initial DDX in human medicine where it’s normally one of the 1st on our DDX lists! Crazy the disconnect in human and animal med.
I was 31 weeks pregnant. Fever vomiting abdominal pain. Going in to premature labor. No one knew what to do except stop the labor. Until the infectious disease doctor came. Dx quickly. Camflalobactor from someone who did not was he their hands and served food at a restaurant business party. Even knew what IV & oral antibiotics were safe for a pregnant woman. Saved me and my baby My OB was awesome to. Did hesitate to ask for help and stopped my labor. 28 years ago!! My youngest son
As a nurse, I got to read ID consults, but never really appreciated their depth until I experienced one as a patient. I think he really DID find my Apgar scores. Kidding aside, I love that man; he saved my life.
My ID doctor was the only person that understood what was going on with my body when I was admitted with Sepsis. I thought it was a nasty flu, but after a week of lightheaded ness, unbearable throat pain, and a temp one night of 106 Degrees (that’s what cold baths are for kids), I took myself to the ER. An abscess had formed in one of my tonsils which led to an infection into my bloodstream. He explained exactly what was happening with my body. And even though I only saw him a few times over the course of a minute or two, I swear he was the only enlightenment in that NIGHTMARE of an experience that still sticks with me. Not gonna lie though my ENT doctor was… a different story. But hey, I’m alive with no midline in sight.
@@kiki29073 Yes if you have to you should take a lukewarm bath otherwise a freezing one would have an adverse effect. When your core temp is so hot lukewarm still feels like ice😭
@@Naomi-yy8ex It was painful. Thought I just had a nasty flu that caused swollen tonsils so yes it’s noticeable, but it wasn’t until 5 days of progressing symptoms that I had the worst case of brain fog, chills, rapid heart beat, and trouble breathing. It got worse without medical attention. And the abscess was extremely painful partly because it was in such a sensitive area. It’s a nasty thing.
My favorite part of my undergrad microbiology course was when my professor would do "Infectious Disease Storytime" and read weird/unusual case reports.
My mom use to work as a director of infectious disease at a long term acute care hospital ( I worked there for awhile as well) and the amount of times she just knew what was wrong with the patients astounds me. She's one of the sweetest people as well so she'd probably give you an autograph. 🤣
Sometimes I imagine my internal database like a big room of filing cabinets that isn't too organized - papers stacked on top, things misfiled. There are a few filing clerks, but they rarely communicate with one another and sometimes pulling a file takes forever (my often parallel trains of thought personified). When I imagine it for people like your mom, I picture one of those British WWII war rooms where a team of people are running around managing all the information at breakneck pace. I like to think I have a busy mind, but it just doesn't compare to genius.
Worked in Epidemiology at a big teaching hospital for a couple years and it truly was an honor to work with the ID docs and fellows. One ID fellow diagnosed pancreatitis with just a bedside exam. Then the primary team ordered the imaging to confirm the diagnosis. Crazy smart people go into ID.
In my country, we rarely use CT scan to confirm a pancreatitis except we expect a complication.Most of the time, we just take a history and abdominal exam to make a diagnosis, and confirm by serum lipase level
@@dr.b3652 True. Medicine in 3rd world countries is highly focused on physical exam and history due to resource constraints.. Very big contrast to Western medicine which is highly dependent on tests and scans.
@@jasminmemorando6694 Yep. Wait times for regular MRI here is over a year. Every time I read diagnostic guidelines and an MRI is mentioned I know it's some western bullshit
lol a infectious disease specialist diagnosed my diabetic amyotrophy!!! they were my last resort before I had to leave the hospital. these guys are heroes to patients that are tired of being told "nothing is wrong with you"!!!
Wtf that's rude. Stethoscopes are valuable pieces of diagnostic equipment that can last for years. Cool doctors don't drop that... They drop the rectal catheter cause they ain't got no time to deal with yo shit.
My little dog had that when he was a puppy. Almost killed him. His vet couldn’t figure it out so we had to take him to Kansas State University…they have a renowned veterinarian school. They figured it out almost immediately. He’ll be 14 this month 😊
I.D. Doctor is spot on! Personality, bedside manner, and the way they treat/speak to everyone the same way. Doesn’t matter if they are janitorial, nursing staff, or any hospital staff. Straight and to the point. It’s like watching a super computer in action.
@@ambers5207 Yet, a lepto vaccine can give an animal this disease.. And vaccinated pets can shed lepto.. Also, there are variants of lepto.. I've read this on some medical sites! Do you find this true?
In my early 20s, before I enlisted in the military in hopes of paying for college, I was infatuated with the field of infectious disease. Necrotizing Fasciitis and Ebola were my favorite, and was especially fascinated by the work being done to manipulate the behavior of bacteria and the potential to use bacteria to treat other things. When science finally attained the ability to use staph to treat inoperable brain tumours, I was so overjoyed you'd have thought I was part of the team!
Senior year of highschool 2016, i fly out to my brothers college for his graduation. Somewhere along the way, likely the airport, i pick up a chest cold. Its bad but not awful the first day, the 2nd day i'm weak and can barely walk around. Later in the 2nd day i am completely immobile in bed and in constant pain everywhere, body on fire/muscles fatigued. 3rd day HUGE bouts of emesis, pretty sure i ruined the hotel bathroom but was too zooted on sickness to tell. At this point i am BEGGING my parents to take me to a hospital, they say "when we get home because we have better hospitals." 4th day i'm weak, fatigued, couldnt eat solid foods, but otherwise ok. On the flight home i start getting mild chest pain, my dad tells me its only a 2 hour flight and that if i still feel bad when we land we can go to the hospital. We get home and im feeling alright except for this chest pain. It gets a little worse continuously all day until i cant stand it anymore. I go to my mom, sobbing, demanding she take me to a hospital. Finally she takes me to the ER. I get there and the emesis starts again, now with diarrhea. My mom helps me clean up, im about to fucking collapse on the ground and die, and finally get into the ER. They run tests, determine that i have something wrong with my heart, and take me into the cardiac care unit. All the while theyre asking me questions like "did you snort any coke? Meth?" About 40 fucking times while am barely even there mentally, and then once they stabalize me in the ccu... he came in. Infectious Disease. He starts asking me the same questions, did i do any drugs, but only once. He then starts asking a series of what to me were nonsenical questions. I could try to recount them but i really dont remember well. I do remember that the interaction lasted about 5 minutes, and 10 minutes after that i'm being taken into either an mri or catscan, whatever. They get me dosed the fuck up on dye, i'm in the thing for 4 GODDAMN ACTUAL HOURS, at which point i came out basically delerious. They let me sleep after giving me some medication, and the next day i meet my cardiologist. He tells me the story. Infectious Disease determined i had picked up a virus that was now causing myocarditis and the scan was to confirm. He was right. I don't know how the fuck he knew but he was right.
Everyone here is being so hard on the parents but it honestly sounded like the stomach flue for the first couple of days. I’d be hesitant too. No one that I know goes to the hospital for the stomach flu. You just have to suck it up for a couple of days. They took you when you said you really needed it, and that’s what counts.
I am NOT doctor, let alone an infectious disease doctor, however…after taking a microbiology class and having a professor who worked in public health, I accurately identified my friend’s symptoms of Valley Fever. He had been complaining about dust where he lived, he was African American, and he had a month long persistent cough. His doctors ended up bouncing him around until they had to do a biopsy on his brain, which had fungus growing in it. 🥺😔 Public health officers are bosses, too! They’ll teach you everything!
Absolutely, I’m a person who unfortunately susceptible due to having EDS and prior international travels. Infection abscess after simple procedure and they wanted to reopen and drain. ID pointed out surgery would be more risky and pushed the right direction of what very uncommon antibiotics would work for me while not interfering in my connective tissue. Man was a genius who came bedside to talk and swap mental notes. They are incredibly important behind the scene faces we barely get to see or thank ❤️
My primary doctor is also an infectious disease doctor. I love going in with cold symptoms and getting my blood taken...urine taken...family history of every friggin illness for the past 3 generations and walk out with antibiotics...for my friggin cold. He is thorough, I will give him that.
No ID doc would give antibiotics for a virus. Just pointing that out. So, you likely didn’t have a cold, but a bacterial infection and the tests were necessary to determine that.
I owe my life to an infectious disease specialist, and I can say, yup, this is about right. Tho, he was a lot more smug when the doctors treating me finally listened
I love infectious disease. They're like ... made up entirely of validated confidence. They heard hoof beats, thought zebras, and were CORRECT. You call them in when you don't know which medical journal to look at. House got the attention but they get it right 😎
@@kelly1827 Underrated comment. Yeah exactly, their chances of being correct are out of an already-narrowed pool of possibilities, so their guesses about rare disease inherently carry larger chance of being right than they would if guessed by people whose job is to narrow things down from a much much larger pool. It's funny how that sort of context so easily falls out of our human minds yet makes SUCH a massive difference in the shape of our statistical reasoning and takeaways. ... This ain't to detract from ID work ofc, I'm obsessed with it and think it's insanely badass lol. I just like specificity and nuance too much. (Reasons I know I'll love IM 😆)
@@juanito2109 Oh hey there ID doctor! Uhhhh how's it going? Nice weather we're having, ain't it? Say, I don't suppose you happen to be in the mood to ramble about your field and your favorite things about it and any exciting stories you want to share, perhaps? (All seriousness aside lol, no pressure, truly! I know that generating words about stuff requires valuable brainpower and you surely use lots of brainpower elsewhere. Just had to take the opportunity to put the invite out there!)
@@ItsAsparageese Sure... I live in São Paulo, Brazil. Here is an amazing place to be a ID phisician, all sorts of tropical diseases, a lot of tuberculosis, and many other interesting stuff that you dont frequently see in America or in European countries. I work with Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infectious control in a Hospital, i also work in a HIV/General ID ambulatory, and minister classes about Epidemiology and Statistics in a local University. Its really my dream job, a lot of science required and great people to learn and discuss rare cases. I have many great stories, here we see the type of ID you would read in books or see in the Medieval Europe. Due to a large extremely poor and ignorant share of the population. Funny stories and some quite sad ones as well. Maybe one day, in a nice Wine Bar, drinking a bottle of a fine Espumante from Vale dos Vinhedos i could tell you some of the stories.
I was in hospital for 5 weeks until finally “infectious disease” got involved and was given a diagnoses within a matter of days! This video is probably how the dialogue went between the other drs and the closer of my case lol
Look, I've been in the hospital for a couple days at a time, 5 or six times now. One of those times they felt the need to call in infectious disease, which i still genuinely have no idea why but i assume it was for this reason exactly because this woman walked in and Knew Everything. I couldn't decide if i was in love with her or terrified of her sheer competence. She figured out i was not in fact allergic to penicillin, which my mother and i thought i was for like 25 years (her logic of "babies get rashes, maybe it wasn't the penicillin" was impeccable) and then just sort of solved everything, asked if i had any questions like i even knew what words were at that point, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Also fun fact: people who have allergic reactions like “rashes” to penicillin as a kid tend to grow out of them after about 10 years :-) if its an old rash it may be worth the risk. If it’s anaphylaxis it’s not worth the risk!
In high school everything went wrong with me and I had a series of rotating symptoms. I swelled up like the pilsbury dough boy, I had a sort of geometric rash under my skin all over my body, got like 10 infections back to back, wouldn’t stop getting “mono,” an unstoppable fever, pain in all the joints and hella fatigue. Infectious disease literally glanced at me after other doctors missed the signs and said it’s autoimmune. 2.5 weeks later I had a lupus diagnosis. I still remember when he sent in the blood tests and called me three days later before the diagnosis was official, “Your vitals are that of an almost dead person, I’ve booked you a room at the local hospital. Please come prepared for an extended stay.” 😮😅
I am a pharmacy resident, and have a very unique opportunity to round one on one with the ID doc. It's an understatement how much I love their notes and the well thought out assessment and plans and the golden statement: duration of therapy 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰. I LOOOVEE ID DOCSSS !!!!!!
God yes the duration of therapy!!! Whenever ID is consulted I start with their notes! They have a plan and they actually communicate it via their notes. Also they say when a bug growing in a culture can be ignored because it’s a contaminant. :-)
This is truly a Dr House moment. I saw a meme where it was the show House and they had a difficult case and House just rolls in says to check the anus and everyone is shocked that he could identify the second documented case of ass worms. House just played the air guitar on his cane and left. Super accurate lol
Took a weekend trip three states away, and wound up in the hospital for 2 weeks. The infectious disease doc who was treating me came back after a 4 day weekend to tell me that my case was featured in his speech at medical conference…in my hometown! Nobody was ever able to figure out what the heck I had.
@@Melanie16040 Nope. However 20 some years later it came back after a surgery. It was then diagnosed as lymphedema. Looking at it now I am positive that was what I had back then. The weird thing is that I am able to stand and walk now but then it was impossible
Omg! These are funny EVERY time. Nurse here- LOVE doctor and hospital humor! Your channel was shared with me by Dr friend and now forever grateful. Hahaha! Thank you, Eric.
My rheumatologist is also an infectious diseases doctor and he's the only one who actually listens to me and the only one who even noticed some of my issues. He suggest I get tested for adhd and he was correct, as he was about other more rheumatology focused issues
My boyfriend was going in and out hospital for every new symptom he got... He even lost feeling in the legs while he was at the hospital and they still sent him home. He went to the bigger hospital in Stockholm and they saw that last week his blood level had high infection. So they took him in and wondered why the other did not take him with those numbers... They still did not know what the problem was... Manny tests... At last, they call one that had been working in Africa for a time and he said he had seen this before and had to be tuberculosis. He was right. He had it in the spinal column and that's why he lost the feeling to his legs. This was in Stockholm, Sweden. There was an African from his class that had come back from his homeland and Manny in his class got it, but they where non active. And he got it in the spine .. that's very rare...
I love the culture the blood cultures line!!! In 2009 I almost died from a heart valve infection called Endocarditis. It remained undiagnosed for 2 months! I'm extremely lucky to be alive and to not have a pig or artificial vale. They thought that's what it was the whole time and kept doing blood cultures but they didn't do the right cultures, they basically were looking for the wrong bacteria. They only figured it out about 18hrs before I would have died, according to my many Dr's at the time. They didn't know how I was still standing. The only reason they found it was because one of my family doctors had the idea to do a CAT scan of my lungs. I guess Endocarditis sometimes causes a speckled looking infection in the lungs similar to tuberculosis, and I had already tested negative for that. After that they did another set of cultures and found the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. I guess they don't usually see that one where my infection was so they didn't test for it. I was in the hospital almost 4 months. One of the doctors actually said this! They should have cultured the cultures! I don't know if he was serious or just being funny. But it's crazy to hear it again after all these years.
As a parent of a child who almost died because of a Strep A infection (a micro abrasion) a Team of Doctors including the head of the department. Thankfully, our local hospital knew it was too much for them and transferred her immediately to main hospital. One minute healthy & fit teen to needing a forced air nasal cannula, ICU, 2 surgeries, weeks of IV antibiotics, antimicrobial foot baths & wrapping with Vaseline gauze for weeks. I owe my life to those Doctors. Funny note...they did validate my craziness about refusing drinking tap.
Quality of tap water varies from place to place, so whether you should drink it or not depends on the area and results of tests. There are areas in Denmark (the country I live in), where people sometimes have to boil their water to make it safe to drink. Not all water problems can be fixed by boiling though.
This reminds me of the videos that I just watched of crystal clear water in lakes of Switzerland. Their constant flowing public fountains are supposedly cleaner than any bottle water you could ever buy in the supermarket.
Crazy cause where I live leptospirosis is super common (the laymen term for it in our language is rat fever, patients would recognize it)... mind you, it can still go missed and patients can and have died from it going unnoticed,, but you better believe Infectious Disease is gonna have a high index of suspicion
I honestly didn't know before this video that it's rare in humans lol. There are varieties of lepto that are really common in veterinary. It's generally transmitted to dogs from grass that's been urinated on by infected wild mammals.
@@ItsAsparageese yep. Where I'm from, the most common mode of transmission is rat pee, especially in farmers/field workers that come into contact with land that rats have urinated on...hence it's called rat fever
@@cmoneman3025 Fascinating, there are hardly any wild rats (relatively, of course there are some) around my area of the world so I'd never heard of that. Thank you for the interesting -consult- info!
😂 I had a infectious disease doctor say the weirdest thing to me. Ok so I had a picc line for 8 years(TPN patient) & it kept trying to kill me with blood infections. When I was 24, I felt really sick, like a blood infection but without the fever. I didn't go in to the hospital as soon as I should have, so when I finally went, I was in the ICU for two weeks, the hospital for over a month. Infectious disease doctor, in the most serious voice, goes "you could have died. You should of come in sooner. The only thing more urgent than having a fever of 104, is not having a fever at all. It means your body isn't fighting the infection. You should rush to the hospital the next time you don't have a fever" After I told him the reason I ignored the other signs of a blood infection for so long was because I only spiked a fever once and then didn't get my usual crazy 104.5 fever that I got with other blood infections. My spouse goes "so you are saying if she has a fever, she should obviously immediately come in but if she DOESN'T have a fever, she should also immediately come in?"😂🤦 I know what the doctor meant, that if i was having all the other symptoms of a blood infection except for the fever, that I should come in, but the way he put it made it sound like I should be alarmed anytime I don't have a fever
Yeah. Infections can have hyperthermia or hypothermia/normothermia. The white blood cell count can also be normal. We usually see something like that in severely immunocompromised patients or if the blood infection is so severe. An infection without a response from the body means the body has given up.
This story (and the comment from @nirmal jacob ) captures the essence of ID even better in a way. We are so used to our heuristics (fever = infection) that we forget to step back and think about the whole picture ... but you can't capture that in a simple rule to follow ...
Sepsis criteria is also temp below 36 degrees celsius so yeah it could be you being cold as well not just spiking a temp! I'm glad you got out of it okay and that you're no longer on tpn
ID told us to seek emergency care if my daughter even runs a 99°F temp. But getting our local ED docs to do anything, yeah, right. He ended up writing a letter to the Chief of Emergency Medicine. He wants basic labs drawn no matter what. That means using her port to draw them...and if that means having to use Cathflo Activase, then it better be freaking done. No more turning her away just saying it is most likely viral and if she thinks she's really sick to drive over an hour away to another hospital!
wow now I understand - my sis in law is really extremely good with diagnosing things (you kind of say "hello" into the phone and she tells you what you have) and I always thought it was a special talent, now I know it comes from her spezialising in hygiene and microbiology treating infectious diseases!
"The Closer" was called in for me once, he was much like your character lol. He evaluated me, was very serious, and STILL couldn't figure out what was wrong with me lol... I got better but never found out lol
I had a friend call me from the ER one night while they were taking her husband to imaging. She was asking for advice. (Nurse here) she told me the infectious disease specialist was on the way. I was astonished. I told her she was probably at an incredibly good hospital and things would be straightened out soon. Which is exactly what happened. Lol. They run across some weird things, that's for sure.
Not the same specialty, but I walked into urgent care with hives and swelling. The hives I'd been dealing with for over a month. The doctor told me I was probably allergic to my losartan and to discontinue it. She referred me to an allergist who didn't even test for allergies. He just took my history and said "You're not allergic to anything. If you were, the symptoms would come and go. More likely, this is an effect of a cold you had back in December."
I had an infectious disease doctor almost exactly like this one! Asked all sorts of questions about traveling, being near my grandkids, everything. A real life Dr. House.
Omg... I had a friend contract leptospirosis from a trip to Puerto Rico. The speacialist walked in nearly like this when we told him the symptoms earlier but the rest of the team was doubting him waiting for the cultures. Within a matter of a hours my friend got so bad he could barely speak so his sister and I kept providing details and this man managed to guess it was that and get the treatmeant going before the cultures arrived. My friend was to the point he needed dialysis. And all of that started with the specialist walking in after he heard the symptoms and going "Has he traveled outside the country recently" "Was a tropical place?" "Did he get a cut or an injury while swimming ?" And prompted the most "Mother of God moment" I've ever seen in real life.
I went to the hospital with a high fever, headache, and struggling to stay awake. While the initial concern was a potential kidney infection due to scans, once they admitted me they decided to treat for meningitis. Why? Headache and my neck hurt (could move it just fine, the bed was just raised at a terrible angle). I refused a spinal tap, so got a full night of antibiotics. Infectious disease doc came in bright and early to see me, talked to me for less than a minute before deciding it definitely wasn't meningitis and I was getting the boot.
Love my infectious disease Docs 🤗😎🙏🏽 it took me 2.5 years, but I’ve got MRSA on the run and episode free for a year and a half. The only problem is my husband popped positive for MRSA about a year ago and we’re trying to stay clear, we’re both immunocompromised and it’s a real, exhausting, expensive fight, but we’re doing ok so far.
I had a friend that his mother was an infectious disease doctor. This is how I imagined her at work, just bc of how cool and collected she was on top of having the capacity to be very scary.
I had a massive CMV liver infection... 7yr old sis-in-law (before she was my in-law) sneezed in my mouth while I yawned. She was never "sick". I blew up like a balloon from 98lbs to 125lbs. Just all puff and my ribs hurt... I passed out at work on a stool then my mom took me to the hospital.
Omgoodness...the very soul of these different specialists is captured so perfectly. It must take years to know how to stroke the egos of these various specialsts. Love this channel🤣🤣🤣
@@stephw.7874 I ended up with a zoonotic infection from working with felines. It’s not a disease that affects humans. I am probably the only case ever.
@@erikburzinski8248 I had to see an infectious specialist and I had at that same time “cat scratch fever” (Bartonella), so he decided perhaps I had another feline transmitted disease. I then had to get super high doses of antibiotics that they pharmacist refused to fill because he’d never seen a dosages that high. He said he had to speak directly with my doctor. He did, I got the prescriptions although he was still leery. I had to sign a form understanding I was taking overdosages. The pharmacist was simply making sure these were correct prescriptions. I did end up having lymph nodes removed because they never settled down.
Reading through these replies it seems the universal opinion of both patients and docs is that you all are even more impressive IRL. I'm seriously impressed O_o
Lol!!! This kind of happened to me (as a patient). I was sick for WEEKS, in and out of the hospital. Someone FINALLY had the idea to call in an infectious disease specialist. Dude walks in, takes one look at me, gives me a correct diagnosis. I was so fuckin mad it took that long for what could’ve been a 10 min visit in the first place.
Oh man! I work with an ID doc and I can say that they are so to the point because they don’t have time for niceties. They are extremely busy because they are consulted so often due to how good they are. What you went through really sucks, I am so glad that you finally got the care you needed!
Once upon a time I was admitted to the hospital and the infectious disease team had to run a test for leptospirosis on me after returning from a hike in Hawaii where feral pigs swam in the river… this whole short hits way too close to home 😂
I was in the hospital over the summer with a particularly awful case of double pneumonia, I was on 3 different antibiotics over the course of 3 different weeks. I ended up in the hospital and after 2 days of not responding to antibiotics they called in the infectious disease doctor, after a single visit he figured out it was blastomycosis. He asked me only like three questions.
Lol I swear the guy acted like that when I got MRSA and needed a wound vac.The man actually wore blue suede shoes... he was the coolest dude in icu lol
I was NOT prepared to hear "bolivian pigs farmer" on a Dr. Hause vibes~ sketch. I am Bolivian and it's just SO weird to just hear anything about the country on UA-cam. It went from funny to hilarious for me. Great job!
…and here I am channeling my inner Dr. House. Don’t forget to culture the cultures.
😎
🤣🤣🤣 I miss that show
I knew it! Hahaha. I was thinking that this seems like an episode of House MD
But who cultures the culture cultures? The culture cultures for thee
My favorite show!
"You won't be asking patients if they have pets, you'll be breaking in their houses and find out for yourself." Yup seems about right
I honestly love it when people quote my videos in the comments of a different video
@@DGlaucomflecken You're very quotable.
@@cconnors so many possibilities for merch!
Petition for a "you know what's smarter than a brain? Two million nephrons" merch!
Dr. House who?
Love your videos..
As an RN I swear this can be damn accurate. The Infectious disease doctor walks in like "House" cuts to the chase and pinpoints the issue. They just know. . .and I highly respect them
They just ask a few random questions and just tell you whats wrong, sometimes I feel like they have accessed some forbidden library
So you are saying infectious disease doctors are just med-detectives
@@sansjoestar702 and other somehow aren't?
@@dimitrijekrstic7567 I'm not quit sure what are trying to say right now
@@sansjoestar702 every doctor has to be a bit of a detective...
Nerd fact: One of my favourite details about House MD is that before he created his own department he worked in Infectious Disease.
That makes SO much sense
It's stated blatantly dozens of times in the show that he's an infectionist idk how that's some deep lore but k matey you do you
@@1v966hey hey chill man
@@1v966 Yep. His specialties are Infectious disease and Nephrology.
Almost 15years ago, my right knee randomly swelled to like 3x it’s size and I couldn’t walk on it. Went to a dozen orthopedic doctors who all wanted to cut me open for a miniscus or acl or some other mechanical part in my knee.
Then one of them, the last one, told me he was going to refer me to an infectious disease doctor, before cutting me open. Mind you, this is after each of these doctors referred me to another.
Went to the that ID doctor and within about 5min he said “I’m 99% sure you have Lymes, we can either do a spinal tap to be sure or we can start you on 30days of IV Rociphen”. I went with the IV. Turned out he was spot on.
He was also the head of the board of infectious disease in NYS as well as being the premier expert on Lymes as NY is the epicenter of Lymes disease cases.
Knee healed up, my gaps in time stopped happening and I’ve been good ever since.
They really are bosses.
Glad you got better!
I really need a a serious rule-out of the more rare versions of Lymes.
I had no clue that NYS is the hotbed of Lymes!
Grew up (mostly) in NYS & am back.
If I don't ALREADY have Lymes, now I'm AFRAID I WILL! 😵
@@redwoodrebelgirl3010 Go see an infectious disease dr. They’ll likely diagnose you correctly or rule it out. Lymes ain’t a joke.
I was losing 10-15 seconds of time randomly. Very frightening.
@@kw2519 back in mid 2020, I had all of the symptoms of Lyme disease: swollen joints, slight fever, massive fatigue. But because I had a fever of 100 degrees, my doctor insisted it was covid despite none of those symptoms lining up and refused to get me a Lyme disease test "because it wasn't safe for me to go out in public." Eventually when my knees reached the size of softballs I went to the emergency room and essentially had to threaten to cough on the staff until they gave me a blood test. Sure enough, it was Lyme. Now I may have residual arthritis for the rest of my life and I can't help thinking that idiot woman dragging her feet for a week may have been a factor.
@@philswift1252 That’s unfortunate…it’s often easily misdiagnosed.
@Layla Flora The best example would be when I was using a saw on a rail to cut a sheet of plywood, I would start the cut and suddenly I’d be at the end of the cut. Like a flash forward. I had no memory of the last 15 seconds. I walked straight to my bosses office, told him what happened and promptly went home to schedule an appointment with my dr.
"You don't ask parents questions, THEY ALL LIE"
-House M.D.
It's kind of sad how well all of the distrust from House applies to working in IT as well. The client is always lying.
@@kerradeph OR in my experience working in IT.... there just stupid. LMAO.
@@chrislaws4785 yea... We're real duuuumb... We also leave out or forget details that might be crucial but we don't know that....
It's why I apologise profusely to it and doctors helping my dumb ass with a problem
@@IsaScience Admitting you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery .....LMAO. Jk.
@@chrislaws4785 they're *
ID doctor here....I showed this to my partner and we cracked up. "The Closer", I like it. Although at times feels more like The Necromancer when they want me to figure out a diagnosis without any cultures😊.
Lmao do you also need magic 8 ball to tell you the answers cultures only work 60% of the time
Lol or the cultures were drawn after starting antibiotics and are only one bottle with a high chance of contamination and you aren’t sure if you need to treat that pan-resistant staph epi because you have no other cultures to compare it to. But they always manage to get a Urine culture in a nonpregnant patient with no urinary symptoms and lots of epithelials.
You guys saved me. Thank you ❤
They couldn't figure out what I had. I was in the hospital Had fever for 2 weeks. Did all the labs. Found out I had sepsis.
You rock!!!
The Wizard would also be appropriate i think. You guys rock.
Question: do ID specialists need to know molecular virology, bacteriology, mycology or immunology? Or any cellular biology in order to understand pathogenesis? Asking for myself. Thanks.
When I had necrotizing facciitis in my left shoulder and chest wall my surgeon wasn't sure what was going on and requested an emergent consult with "the closer" he came in asked a few questions looked at her and said I want a CT. She said she wanted to send me to MRI. They went toe to toe for a couple of minutes and said, "You consulted me because you weren't sure what this was. I'm almost 100% positive that this is flesh-eating bacteria (necrotizing facciitis) because I watched a colleague die from this less than six months ago because he came to me too late because he tried treating it himself. I want her in CT as in yesterday." Needless to say I ended up in CT and my surgeon gave me the confirmation that it was in fact necrotizing facciitis and that I had approximately 6 hours left to live, 9 tops without immediate surgery and aggressive antibiotics and that I would possibly lose my left arm. I lost neither my life nor my arm thanks to "the closer".
6 to 9 hours... shit that was close. Glad you recover
Out of curiosity, may I know how you got Nec-Fash?
I just want to understand more about the disease
@Abdul-Rahman3207 It's a serious Group A strep infection that once it gets into an open wound or sore it starts killing off fatty and skin tissue and gets into your bloodstream, causing sepsis and death within as little as 24 hours.
Just went through this. Necrotizing fasciitis in my upper, right thigh. Thought I was going to lose my leg, but plastic surgery and ID worked miracles! I still have my leg minus half of my thigh….had to be taken to the OR three times in three days and I don’t remember most of it. Was on a ventilator for a week or so, it was a horrible ordeal. Ended up being hospitalized and going through acute care rehab, then home healthcare and I’m still healing. But I’m alive and I have both my legs. All thanks to those wonderful docs.
@@melissadunton3534 I was placed in a medically induced coma for 9 days. I have a large scar on my left chest.
I got sick with a fever for 2 weeks, started vomiting and my liver was damaged. The doctors at the hospital had no clue what was going on, did heart scans, liver scans, x-rays, blood tests, and still no diagnosis. The ID came in and within 10mins told me I had a severe case of mono, he was right.
what's mono? tell us please
Same here. The first week I just stayed in cause I didnt have any severe symptoms so I just tought I had a cold. The last day an a half before I checked into the hospital I could even drink water. Though mono is pretty common here so I got diagnosed within like a day. It was a wild week in the hospital for sure.
@detroit7543 mononucleosis, caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, found in the herpes family. Commonly referred to as kissing disease, since you can only get it from saliva from someone who's had it. Once you've had it, you're infectious for it for another 18 months or so. Luckily, you probably won't get it again (idk if it has a secondary thing it can cause many years later). Incubation is about 4-10 weeks. If you get it as a child (below 10 or so), you get a severe cold. If you're older, it's really bad throat pain, grey/white plaque at the very back of the mouth, difficulty drinking and eating, fever, sweating a lot, extremely swollen tonsils, weird speech and clearly enlarged lymph nodes, especially the neck. Can take many weeks to heal. Usually can't be helped by medicinal things and has to be left alone, but in severe cases you'll need an IV hydration drip if you can't drink.
@@detroit7543mononucleosis
@detroit7543 Infectious mononucleosis - it's transmitted through saliva (it's nicknamed "the kissing disease" because of that), and it absolutely sucks.
Had it when I was about 8 years old. Felt extremely sick for about a month straight. Also, I've never had my tonsils taken out. They swelled up so badly that I couldn't eat solid food without it being extremely painful.
The only good thing about it is that once you get it, it usually just lives dormant in your system forever. So, it's almost impossible to be "reinfected" with it. Glad I got it as a kid, because I can't imagine the life-interrupting nightmare it'd be as a working adult.
I need more ID appearance; he's become one of my favourite characters
He's too busy taking histories and breaking into people's houses.
He’s like Batman, only there when needed and always ends things.
@@tickley42 Nah. I hate it when he initially misdiagnoses the patient while arrogantly insisting he's right, only for something dramatic to happen which makes him realise otherwise. Considering this happens in every episode, as far as I've seen, it's not the right show for me
@@raerohan4241 yep that's how the show developed. Love the show.
@@raerohan4241ew sounds terrible. Thx for saving my time
I loved my infectious disease doctor. Bounced around a few different places and then I walk into his office where he rolls around in his chair, plate of brownies in hand and says, “I assume you have cats. It’ll be lymphoreticulosis. Here’s some antibiotics. WHOO!” Best trip to the doctor ever.
How-!???
@@thefirstray-ci4ym
It's also known as cat scratch fever. For a few it can cause lymph nodes to swell, among other things. An IDD can diagnose this easily.
Did you get a brownie?
Are you sure you didn't watch another season of Dr. House?
An infectious disease doctor saved my dad's life. The ER tried to send him home with a blood infection but my mom insisted something else was going on. They sent in the infectious disease doctor and she diagnosed my dad with vibrio vulnificus. My mom's persistence and that lady's knowledge saved my dad's leg and his life. She was amazing.
Did he get it from warm seawater on an open wound????
@@johnkim6447 Yes.
@@danidearest9999 insane, ID is something else truly
@@johnkim6447damn. Ive had so many wounds going in the waters when i was a kid. Was a dumb fuck back then
@@breadtoaster1011 key is specific warm sea water. Warm temperature really culture all sort of things from bacteria, plants, fungus, etc.
I want a sweatshirt that has "I AM A SICK CONTACT" written on it 🤣🤣🤣
Given current events, that might not… go very well.
Not the best time for wearing that in public, lol!
Now I do too 🤣 I'm sure it will go over perfectly with Covid hovering around. 😳🤣🤣
@@nicelizreu1 if it would keep people away from me I’d consider that a win 😂
Sick like, "sick bro!"
I had a patient, infant girl, with frankly purulent nasal d/c. "If it oozes, culture it," so I did. Grew out escherichia Fergusonii. Her father had recently visited a customer who kept his pet ostriches in the warehouse.
True story.
I wish more docs would culture. When I was a kid every thing got cultured, then they would test for antibiotic resistance so you would get the most effective antibiotics. It just makes sense. Especially today when travel is even crazier.
That is so bizarre!
The way you capitalized F instead of E makes me question reality
I had to Google some stuff and I still don't get everything, but I liked your story!
@@peterjames5887 he grew bacteria coming out of a person to get enough to identify it
My mom's life was saved twice by one of them. First time, it was a severe infection lodged in her cystic kidneys. He reduced the infection, recommended a double nefroctomy, which in the end was a single one, plus everything the kidney was attached to, and the second was a very dangerous OR bug. He had to make a decision very quickly and blinded, because there was no time to lose. The man was RIGHT! He has retired since, but for me he was one of the few who could call themselves "DA BOSS".
❤
That’s amazing! Wonder if he had any other docs following him!? He should have his own UA-cam channel!❤. I’m glad he was able to save your mother.
Your story, like your spelling, is horrible and not accurate if I had to bet.
With a story like this, imagine if the blind dice roll was wrong.
My favorite classes in graduate school (biology and biomedical science) was Parasitology and Medical Microbiology. Both were taught by an ID MD. His stories of his cases were amazing! I learned so much in that class.
So, did you find yourself inferring exotic illnesss for every random
person you saw..?
Wete not was
@@barbieblue3336 Wete
I loved my Med Micro class!
Did he walk around with a cane? Popped vicodin like tictacs?
I could legit see this as an episode of house
It basically was lol, the episode with the kid from spy kids. Where he dug up the cat and confirmed he was dying from the termite toxins
This is an episode of house would be if they didn't dig into the doctors personal lives.
Dr House won't go anywhere for consult. Unless Wilson and Cuddy made him to that 😁
This is what happens after the first twenty-five minutes; the patient starts to get better, only to dramatically crash and get worse due to another complicating factor that the previous symptoms were masking.
It was.
Reminds me of the time I was an intern in the ED and was asked to check on a pt who pushed their call button, walked into the room and the pt asked if they have found out what was wrong with them while practically coughing up a lung, told them we are still waiting for labs to come back and as soon as we know you'll know, as I walk out the room infectious disease was there putting up a quarantine sign on pt room for TB. . . 😶😳🤬
Yikes!!! Hello contagious as …😂
Ffffffffffffffffffff... hell of a day
Lol where I work we see TB pretty regularly.
No good deed …..
Yikes. How long do you need to be in the room with with a patient to become eligible for one of those signs yourself?
The veterinarians watching this are just nodding their heads going “yep, Lepto, we seen this every week.” Lol
Just came here to say how often zoonotic diseases don’t even make the initial DDX in human medicine where it’s normally one of the 1st on our DDX lists!
Crazy the disconnect in human and animal med.
i’m not a dvm but i’m a tech student and i was like YEA LEPTO. it’s so easy for us to recognize zoonosis and zoonotic dz
Coming from a vets assistant, I was thinking just this
Exactly ... Easy !
This why visiting ETs go to the vet not the doctor.
"I'm not here to sign autograph I'm here to treat an infectious disease 😎"
😂😂😂😂😂🤣
Literally the coolest thing you could possibly say
Plagg! 🐈⬛
@@catzie_78 Plagg 🐾☺
We need to go save m'lady, PLAGG CLAWS OUT!!!
Dude you got top comment twice
I was 31 weeks pregnant. Fever vomiting abdominal pain. Going in to premature labor. No one knew what to do except stop the labor. Until the infectious disease doctor came. Dx quickly. Camflalobactor from someone who did not was he their hands and served food at a restaurant business party. Even knew what IV & oral antibiotics were safe for a pregnant woman. Saved me and my baby My OB was awesome to. Did hesitate to ask for help and stopped my labor. 28 years ago!! My youngest son
As a nurse, I got to read ID consults, but never really appreciated their depth until I experienced one as a patient. I think he really DID find my Apgar scores. Kidding aside, I love that man; he saved my life.
Omg the apgar scores 💀
My ID doctor was the only person that understood what was going on with my body when I was admitted with Sepsis. I thought it was a nasty flu, but after a week of lightheaded ness, unbearable throat pain, and a temp one night of 106 Degrees (that’s what cold baths are for kids), I took myself to the ER. An abscess had formed in one of my tonsils which led to an infection into my bloodstream. He explained exactly what was happening with my body. And even though I only saw him a few times over the course of a minute or two, I swear he was the only enlightenment in that NIGHTMARE of an experience that still sticks with me. Not gonna lie though my ENT doctor was… a different story. But hey, I’m alive with no midline in sight.
Nope. No cold baths. That is no longer recommended. It's as dangerous to bring down a fever that quickly as it is to have that high a temp.
What did sepsis/abscesses feel like? Was in completely noticeable?
@@kiki29073 Yes if you have to you should take a lukewarm bath otherwise a freezing one would have an adverse effect. When your core temp is so hot lukewarm still feels like ice😭
@@Naomi-yy8ex It was painful. Thought I just had a nasty flu that caused swollen tonsils so yes it’s noticeable, but it wasn’t until 5 days of progressing symptoms that I had the worst case of brain fog, chills, rapid heart beat, and trouble breathing. It got worse without medical attention. And the abscess was extremely painful partly because it was in such a sensitive area. It’s a nasty thing.
Tell us about your ENT!
I can tell you as an ID resident we do think differently about the patients and this is spot on
How so?
pls elaborate...🙏🙏🙏
My favorite part of my undergrad microbiology course was when my professor would do "Infectious Disease Storytime" and read weird/unusual case reports.
Was it from the book “Eleven Blue Men”?
My mom use to work as a director of infectious disease at a long term acute care hospital ( I worked there for awhile as well) and the amount of times she just knew what was wrong with the patients astounds me. She's one of the sweetest people as well so she'd probably give you an autograph. 🤣
It’s almost like “mom instinct” when the mom knows exactly what’s wrong w her kid w zero testing 🤣
Sometimes I imagine my internal database like a big room of filing cabinets that isn't too organized - papers stacked on top, things misfiled. There are a few filing clerks, but they rarely communicate with one another and sometimes pulling a file takes forever (my often parallel trains of thought personified). When I imagine it for people like your mom, I picture one of those British WWII war rooms where a team of people are running around managing all the information at breakneck pace. I like to think I have a busy mind, but it just doesn't compare to genius.
I had leptospirosis once. Can relate to this as I had several doctors all misdiagnose me until a infectious disease doctor diagnosed me
Bruhh those guys are good
"psychosomatic" misdiagnosis are my favourite 🤮
It not that usual and treatment is controversial
@@Gbbb239very usual if you are a farmer or meatworker in rural areas.
Penicillin or Doxycycline isn't controversial either
Worked in Epidemiology at a big teaching hospital for a couple years and it truly was an honor to work with the ID docs and fellows. One ID fellow diagnosed pancreatitis with just a bedside exam. Then the primary team ordered the imaging to confirm the diagnosis. Crazy smart people go into ID.
In my country, we rarely use CT scan to confirm a pancreatitis except we expect a complication.Most of the time, we just take a history and abdominal exam to make a diagnosis, and confirm by serum lipase level
@@dr.b3652 True. Medicine in 3rd world countries is highly focused on physical exam and history due to resource constraints.. Very big contrast to Western medicine which is highly dependent on tests and scans.
@@jasminmemorando6694 Yep. Wait times for regular MRI here is over a year. Every time I read diagnostic guidelines and an MRI is mentioned I know it's some western bullshit
What is ID? (Sorry for the stupid question)
@@owbahraniya500 Infectious Disease
if you talk to infectious disease as a patient there’s a weird feeling of impending doom, just by the questions they ask
Personally I like the cut the bullshit and get to the point of them. I've had my life saved 3x by them.
lol a infectious disease specialist diagnosed my diabetic amyotrophy!!! they were my last resort before I had to leave the hospital. these guys are heroes to patients that are tired of being told "nothing is wrong with you"!!!
*Drops the stethoscope and walks away*
Wtf that's rude.
Stethoscopes are valuable pieces of diagnostic equipment that can last for years. Cool doctors don't drop that...
They drop the rectal catheter cause they ain't got no time to deal with yo shit.
He wouldn’t drop the stethoscope, floors are nasty. Our ID docs cover everything, even their stethoscopes.
Lmao
Ppl in this comment section didnt get your comment bro
Lol I fear dropping my Littmann. But once I do I've had my eye on a new one.
I love watching the hierarchy within the medical field, and the different attitudes towards different specialities. It's hilarious! :D
Same it makes me want to be a doctor so bad 😭 I love structure too
@@damonbrown5803 you wont like it when you find out that theyre the most (or one of the most) toxic/bullying professions/studies
Same except Idek what have these professions mean 😭
My little dog had that when he was a puppy. Almost killed him. His vet couldn’t figure it out so we had to take him to Kansas State University…they have a renowned veterinarian school. They figured it out almost immediately. He’ll be 14 this month 😊
[loud cheering!]
I.D. Doctor is spot on! Personality, bedside manner, and the way they treat/speak to everyone the same way. Doesn’t matter if they are janitorial, nursing staff, or any hospital staff. Straight and to the point. It’s like watching a super computer in action.
It’s crazy working at a vet clinic and getting multiple lepto cases a month and hearing it used in a way where it sounds rare.
I was just thinking this and looking for a comment like this!!
My thought each time too!
Lmao hey found it
@@RA-ms3je We know but it's novel to hear it like it's rare! It's part of the core vaccines because it's common enough in our area! It's
@@ambers5207 Yet, a lepto vaccine can give an animal this disease.. And vaccinated pets can shed lepto.. Also, there are variants of lepto.. I've read this on some medical sites! Do you find this true?
In my early 20s, before I enlisted in the military in hopes of paying for college, I was infatuated with the field of infectious disease. Necrotizing Fasciitis and Ebola were my favorite, and was especially fascinated by the work being done to manipulate the behavior of bacteria and the potential to use bacteria to treat other things. When science finally attained the ability to use staph to treat inoperable brain tumours, I was so overjoyed you'd have thought I was part of the team!
Hugh Laurie looks great here
😂😂😂
doesnt he always
😂😂😂❣️
Most don’t know he’s a talented pianist too
less moody and mean than usual..maybe he got some last night from a prostitute
Senior year of highschool 2016, i fly out to my brothers college for his graduation. Somewhere along the way, likely the airport, i pick up a chest cold. Its bad but not awful the first day, the 2nd day i'm weak and can barely walk around. Later in the 2nd day i am completely immobile in bed and in constant pain everywhere, body on fire/muscles fatigued. 3rd day HUGE bouts of emesis, pretty sure i ruined the hotel bathroom but was too zooted on sickness to tell. At this point i am BEGGING my parents to take me to a hospital, they say "when we get home because we have better hospitals." 4th day i'm weak, fatigued, couldnt eat solid foods, but otherwise ok. On the flight home i start getting mild chest pain, my dad tells me its only a 2 hour flight and that if i still feel bad when we land we can go to the hospital. We get home and im feeling alright except for this chest pain. It gets a little worse continuously all day until i cant stand it anymore. I go to my mom, sobbing, demanding she take me to a hospital. Finally she takes me to the ER. I get there and the emesis starts again, now with diarrhea. My mom helps me clean up, im about to fucking collapse on the ground and die, and finally get into the ER. They run tests, determine that i have something wrong with my heart, and take me into the cardiac care unit. All the while theyre asking me questions like "did you snort any coke? Meth?" About 40 fucking times while am barely even there mentally, and then once they stabalize me in the ccu... he came in. Infectious Disease. He starts asking me the same questions, did i do any drugs, but only once. He then starts asking a series of what to me were nonsenical questions. I could try to recount them but i really dont remember well. I do remember that the interaction lasted about 5 minutes, and 10 minutes after that i'm being taken into either an mri or catscan, whatever. They get me dosed the fuck up on dye, i'm in the thing for 4 GODDAMN ACTUAL HOURS, at which point i came out basically delerious. They let me sleep after giving me some medication, and the next day i meet my cardiologist. He tells me the story. Infectious Disease determined i had picked up a virus that was now causing myocarditis and the scan was to confirm. He was right. I don't know how the fuck he knew but he was right.
That sounds extremely concerning, i hope you're downplaying your parents' worry
cruel parents you habe there, for not giving attentiom to your needs
Your parents play with your life there.
Everyone here is being so hard on the parents but it honestly sounded like the stomach flue for the first couple of days. I’d be hesitant too. No one that I know goes to the hospital for the stomach flu. You just have to suck it up for a couple of days. They took you when you said you really needed it, and that’s what counts.
@@KallieMaenope teen aged boy who actually say he feels with crazy amounts of emesis, he diesnt shake it off by day 3? You gotta see somebody.
I am NOT doctor, let alone an infectious disease doctor, however…after taking a microbiology class and having a professor who worked in public health, I accurately identified my friend’s symptoms of Valley Fever. He had been complaining about dust where he lived, he was African American, and he had a month long persistent cough. His doctors ended up bouncing him around until they had to do a biopsy on his brain, which had fungus growing in it. 🥺😔
Public health officers are bosses, too! They’ll teach you everything!
Absolutely, I’m a person who unfortunately susceptible due to having EDS and prior international travels.
Infection abscess after simple procedure and they wanted to reopen and drain. ID pointed out surgery would be more risky and pushed the right direction of what very uncommon antibiotics would work for me while not interfering in my connective tissue. Man was a genius who came bedside to talk and swap mental notes. They are incredibly important behind the scene faces we barely get to see or thank ❤️
As someone with EDS myself, mind telling me what they put you on?
Hello fellow zebra
@@IamOdinite hey 🦓
Ooh, fellow zebras! Drs spend literally years figuring out what's wrong with me at times. Glad they found a timely answer for you.
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The smooth slide in with the sunglasses and the simple “Go” had me rolling. 😂
ID is very underrated and so needed. My Hospital has one. It's a small community hospital. But it's rough when that doc is out.
it reminds you of Dr. House when he show off his knowledge of toxin in certain animals
guess what his background...a Board Certified in ID
Also, the fact that he's recommending a treatment before taking 30 minutes to confirm that this longshot theory is, in fact, what the patient has.
Dr House from the series is an infectologist, so it all makes sense now
There's no way a timber rattlesnake regenerates that much venom that quickly.
@@brendielahooha AND a nephrologist.. They knew whom they wrote. House just needed a Neuroendocrinologist as a foil, and they fucked that up.
Tbf for House, he is the last resort doctor, when the rest doesn't work, it's his job
My primary doctor is also an infectious disease doctor. I love going in with cold symptoms and getting my blood taken...urine taken...family history of every friggin illness for the past 3 generations and walk out with antibiotics...for my friggin cold. He is thorough, I will give him that.
No ID doc would give antibiotics for a virus. Just pointing that out. So, you likely didn’t have a cold, but a bacterial infection and the tests were necessary to determine that.
"I am not here to sign autographs. I am here to treat infectious disease." This is a man on a mission.
I owe my life to an infectious disease specialist, and I can say, yup, this is about right. Tho, he was a lot more smug when the doctors treating me finally listened
I love infectious disease. They're like ... made up entirely of validated confidence. They heard hoof beats, thought zebras, and were CORRECT. You call them in when you don't know which medical journal to look at. House got the attention but they get it right 😎
They probably have an advantage in that they are usually consulted when all the horses have been accounted for 😉
@@kelly1827 Underrated comment. Yeah exactly, their chances of being correct are out of an already-narrowed pool of possibilities, so their guesses about rare disease inherently carry larger chance of being right than they would if guessed by people whose job is to narrow things down from a much much larger pool. It's funny how that sort of context so easily falls out of our human minds yet makes SUCH a massive difference in the shape of our statistical reasoning and takeaways.
... This ain't to detract from ID work ofc, I'm obsessed with it and think it's insanely badass lol. I just like specificity and nuance too much. (Reasons I know I'll love IM 😆)
As an ID doctor i can confirm that.
@@juanito2109 Oh hey there ID doctor! Uhhhh how's it going? Nice weather we're having, ain't it? Say, I don't suppose you happen to be in the mood to ramble about your field and your favorite things about it and any exciting stories you want to share, perhaps?
(All seriousness aside lol, no pressure, truly! I know that generating words about stuff requires valuable brainpower and you surely use lots of brainpower elsewhere. Just had to take the opportunity to put the invite out there!)
@@ItsAsparageese Sure... I live in São Paulo, Brazil. Here is an amazing place to be a ID phisician, all sorts of tropical diseases, a lot of tuberculosis, and many other interesting stuff that you dont frequently see in America or in European countries.
I work with Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infectious control in a Hospital, i also work in a HIV/General ID ambulatory, and minister classes about Epidemiology and Statistics in a local University.
Its really my dream job, a lot of science required and great people to learn and discuss rare cases.
I have many great stories, here we see the type of ID you would read in books or see in the Medieval Europe. Due to a large extremely poor and ignorant share of the population. Funny stories and some quite sad ones as well.
Maybe one day, in a nice Wine Bar, drinking a bottle of a fine Espumante from Vale dos Vinhedos i could tell you some of the stories.
I was in hospital for 5 weeks until finally “infectious disease” got involved and was given a diagnoses within a matter of days! This video is probably how the dialogue went between the other drs and the closer of my case lol
"You can't get a disease from a book."
*sweats in scp*
Underrated
I love/hate that i know exactly which one this is referring to 😂
@@silverdandylmao I think I'm glad I don't.
@@kohakuaikowhy?
Look, I've been in the hospital for a couple days at a time, 5 or six times now. One of those times they felt the need to call in infectious disease, which i still genuinely have no idea why but i assume it was for this reason exactly because this woman walked in and Knew Everything. I couldn't decide if i was in love with her or terrified of her sheer competence. She figured out i was not in fact allergic to penicillin, which my mother and i thought i was for like 25 years (her logic of "babies get rashes, maybe it wasn't the penicillin" was impeccable) and then just sort of solved everything, asked if i had any questions like i even knew what words were at that point, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Also fun fact: people who have allergic reactions like “rashes” to penicillin as a kid tend to grow out of them after about 10 years :-) if its an old rash it may be worth the risk. If it’s anaphylaxis it’s not worth the risk!
@@rebeccajesse4604
POINT POINT POINT POINT THIS THIS THIS THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
In high school everything went wrong with me and I had a series of rotating symptoms. I swelled up like the pilsbury dough boy, I had a sort of geometric rash under my skin all over my body, got like 10 infections back to back, wouldn’t stop getting “mono,” an unstoppable fever, pain in all the joints and hella fatigue. Infectious disease literally glanced at me after other doctors missed the signs and said it’s autoimmune. 2.5 weeks later I had a lupus diagnosis.
I still remember when he sent in the blood tests and called me three days later before the diagnosis was official, “Your vitals are that of an almost dead person, I’ve booked you a room at the local hospital. Please come prepared for an extended stay.” 😮😅
as an Infectious Disease Fellow this is absolutely hysterical!!! ...and accurate -_-
I am a pharmacy resident, and have a very unique opportunity to round one on one with the ID doc. It's an understatement how much I love their notes and the well thought out assessment and plans and the golden statement: duration of therapy 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰. I LOOOVEE ID DOCSSS !!!!!!
God yes the duration of therapy!!! Whenever ID is consulted I start with their notes! They have a plan and they actually communicate it via their notes. Also they say when a bug growing in a culture can be ignored because it’s a contaminant. :-)
This is truly a Dr House moment. I saw a meme where it was the show House and they had a difficult case and House just rolls in says to check the anus and everyone is shocked that he could identify the second documented case of ass worms. House just played the air guitar on his cane and left. Super accurate lol
I'll never forget the time I meet the team of ID doctors treating my father. Those "closers" saved my dad's life. Thank you
Took a weekend trip three states away, and wound up in the hospital for 2 weeks. The infectious disease doc who was treating me came back after a 4 day weekend to tell me that my case was featured in his speech at medical conference…in my hometown! Nobody was ever able to figure out what the heck I had.
The "Good news: We're gonna name a disease after you." Type of thing 🤣🤣
@@ndricimhalili9793”The good news is we’re gonna name a disease after me.”
So even the ID Dr who was treating you never figured it out?
@@Melanie16040 Nope. However 20 some years later it came back after a surgery. It was then diagnosed as lymphedema. Looking at it now I am positive that was what I had back then. The weird thing is that I am able to stand and walk now but then it was impossible
Omg! These are funny EVERY time.
Nurse here- LOVE doctor and hospital humor! Your channel was shared with me by Dr friend and now forever grateful. Hahaha! Thank you, Eric.
My rheumatologist is also an infectious diseases doctor and he's the only one who actually listens to me and the only one who even noticed some of my issues. He suggest I get tested for adhd and he was correct, as he was about other more rheumatology focused issues
My boyfriend was going in and out hospital for every new symptom he got... He even lost feeling in the legs while he was at the hospital and they still sent him home. He went to the bigger hospital in Stockholm and they saw that last week his blood level had high infection. So they took him in and wondered why the other did not take him with those numbers... They still did not know what the problem was... Manny tests...
At last, they call one that had been working in Africa for a time and he said he had seen this before and had to be tuberculosis.
He was right. He had it in the spinal column and that's why he lost the feeling to his legs.
This was in Stockholm, Sweden.
There was an African from his class that had come back from his homeland and Manny in his class got it, but they where non active. And he got it in the spine .. that's very rare...
Oh wow that's crazy!! I hope he's doing okay now.
Potts Disease
This is literally a house episode
This is why immigration is bad
I love the culture the blood cultures line!!! In 2009 I almost died from a heart valve infection called Endocarditis. It remained undiagnosed for 2 months! I'm extremely lucky to be alive and to not have a pig or artificial vale. They thought that's what it was the whole time and kept doing blood cultures but they didn't do the right cultures, they basically were looking for the wrong bacteria. They only figured it out about 18hrs before I would have died, according to my many Dr's at the time. They didn't know how I was still standing. The only reason they found it was because one of my family doctors had the idea to do a CAT scan of my lungs. I guess Endocarditis sometimes causes a speckled looking infection in the lungs similar to tuberculosis, and I had already tested negative for that. After that they did another set of cultures and found the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus. I guess they don't usually see that one where my infection was so they didn't test for it. I was in the hospital almost 4 months. One of the doctors actually said this! They should have cultured the cultures! I don't know if he was serious or just being funny. But it's crazy to hear it again after all these years.
Wow, it’s crazy easy to culture staph aureus, so weird that it didn’t pop up! I’m so glad you made it through without needing a new valve!
As a parent of a child who almost died because of a Strep A infection (a micro abrasion) a Team of Doctors including the head of the department. Thankfully, our local hospital knew it was too much for them and transferred her immediately to main hospital. One minute healthy & fit teen to needing a forced air nasal cannula, ICU, 2 surgeries, weeks of IV antibiotics, antimicrobial foot baths & wrapping with Vaseline gauze for weeks. I owe my life to those Doctors. Funny note...they did validate my craziness about refusing drinking tap.
Quality of tap water varies from place to place, so whether you should drink it or not depends on the area and results of tests.
There are areas in Denmark (the country I live in), where people sometimes have to boil their water to make it safe to drink. Not all water problems can be fixed by boiling though.
@@jamiececilielange5249 you're right, totally location dependent. Tap water here is amazing. Safe, cold, yummy.
This reminds me of the videos that I just watched of crystal clear water in lakes of Switzerland. Their constant flowing public fountains are supposedly cleaner than any bottle water you could ever buy in the supermarket.
when you google the term and google tells you it's "EXTREMELY RARE" on the side, you know this is a good skit.
Crazy cause where I live leptospirosis is super common (the laymen term for it in our language is rat fever, patients would recognize it)... mind you, it can still go missed and patients can and have died from it going unnoticed,, but you better believe Infectious Disease is gonna have a high index of suspicion
I honestly didn't know before this video that it's rare in humans lol. There are varieties of lepto that are really common in veterinary. It's generally transmitted to dogs from grass that's been urinated on by infected wild mammals.
@@ItsAsparageese yep. Where I'm from, the most common mode of transmission is rat pee, especially in farmers/field workers that come into contact with land that rats have urinated on...hence it's called rat fever
@@cmoneman3025 Fascinating, there are hardly any wild rats (relatively, of course there are some) around my area of the world so I'd never heard of that. Thank you for the interesting -consult- info!
@@ItsAsparageese in some cities of south america If a child goes to the doctor you can bet its ranthavirus or leptospirosys
My favorite channel! I think Dr. Flannery has remembered every single burn from every rotation he suffered through during his residency.
😂 I had a infectious disease doctor say the weirdest thing to me. Ok so I had a picc line for 8 years(TPN patient) & it kept trying to kill me with blood infections. When I was 24, I felt really sick, like a blood infection but without the fever. I didn't go in to the hospital as soon as I should have, so when I finally went, I was in the ICU for two weeks, the hospital for over a month.
Infectious disease doctor, in the most serious voice, goes "you could have died. You should of come in sooner. The only thing more urgent than having a fever of 104, is not having a fever at all. It means your body isn't fighting the infection. You should rush to the hospital the next time you don't have a fever" After I told him the reason I ignored the other signs of a blood infection for so long was because I only spiked a fever once and then didn't get my usual crazy 104.5 fever that I got with other blood infections. My spouse goes "so you are saying if she has a fever, she should obviously immediately come in but if she DOESN'T have a fever, she should also immediately come in?"😂🤦 I know what the doctor meant, that if i was having all the other symptoms of a blood infection except for the fever, that I should come in, but the way he put it made it sound like I should be alarmed anytime I don't have a fever
I thought i was healthy but now i realize my lack of fever indicates my death is nigh...
Yeah. Infections can have hyperthermia or hypothermia/normothermia. The white blood cell count can also be normal. We usually see something like that in severely immunocompromised patients or if the blood infection is so severe. An infection without a response from the body means the body has given up.
This story (and the comment from @nirmal jacob ) captures the essence of ID even better in a way. We are so used to our heuristics (fever = infection) that we forget to step back and think about the whole picture ... but you can't capture that in a simple rule to follow ...
Sepsis criteria is also temp below 36 degrees celsius so yeah it could be you being cold as well not just spiking a temp! I'm glad you got out of it okay and that you're no longer on tpn
ID told us to seek emergency care if my daughter even runs a 99°F temp. But getting our local ED docs to do anything, yeah, right. He ended up writing a letter to the Chief of Emergency Medicine. He wants basic labs drawn no matter what. That means using her port to draw them...and if that means having to use Cathflo Activase, then it better be freaking done. No more turning her away just saying it is most likely viral and if she thinks she's really sick to drive over an hour away to another hospital!
wow now I understand - my sis in law is really extremely good with diagnosing things (you kind of say "hello" into the phone and she tells you what you have) and I always thought it was a special talent, now I know it comes from her spezialising in hygiene and microbiology treating infectious diseases!
"The Closer" was called in for me once, he was much like your character lol. He evaluated me, was very serious, and STILL couldn't figure out what was wrong with me lol... I got better but never found out lol
It never fails, The Closer has the most detail and in depth summary of a patient’s history and physical. 😍😍😍😍
I had a friend call me from the ER one night while they were taking her husband to imaging. She was asking for advice. (Nurse here) she told me the infectious disease specialist was on the way. I was astonished. I told her she was probably at an incredibly good hospital and things would be straightened out soon. Which is exactly what happened. Lol. They run across some weird things, that's for sure.
Not the same specialty, but I walked into urgent care with hives and swelling. The hives I'd been dealing with for over a month. The doctor told me I was probably allergic to my losartan and to discontinue it. She referred me to an allergist who didn't even test for allergies. He just took my history and said "You're not allergic to anything. If you were, the symptoms would come and go. More likely, this is an effect of a cold you had back in December."
My uncle is an infectious disease doctor and my father a nephrologist. Mom and grandpa pathologists. Your videos make me laugh so much
Medical field is infectious in your family huh
@arya and Sara is a janitor at the same hospital
@@arya.n.8252 and Long, it is, but I actually am a comics artist 😂
@@SaraTinjacaA i feel your suffering... My entire family are accountants, while I'm earning money playing video games
Just binge watched your entire UA-cam library and I have to go be a Johnathan in 5 hours. Thank you for the content!
Stay creepy, friend!
I had an infectious disease doctor almost exactly like this one! Asked all sorts of questions about traveling, being near my grandkids, everything. A real life Dr. House.
Omg... I had a friend contract leptospirosis from a trip to Puerto Rico. The speacialist walked in nearly like this when we told him the symptoms earlier but the rest of the team was doubting him waiting for the cultures. Within a matter of a hours my friend got so bad he could barely speak so his sister and I kept providing details and this man managed to guess it was that and get the treatmeant going before the cultures arrived. My friend was to the point he needed dialysis. And all of that started with the specialist walking in after he heard the symptoms and going
"Has he traveled outside the country recently"
"Was a tropical place?"
"Did he get a cut or an injury while swimming ?"
And prompted the most "Mother of God moment" I've ever seen in real life.
Actual ID: “Redo everything, lines foleys imaging, everything, and order everything you didn’t already order”
“Everything?”
“Everything”
I went to the hospital with a high fever, headache, and struggling to stay awake. While the initial concern was a potential kidney infection due to scans, once they admitted me they decided to treat for meningitis. Why? Headache and my neck hurt (could move it just fine, the bed was just raised at a terrible angle). I refused a spinal tap, so got a full night of antibiotics. Infectious disease doc came in bright and early to see me, talked to me for less than a minute before deciding it definitely wasn't meningitis and I was getting the boot.
Love my infectious disease Docs 🤗😎🙏🏽 it took me 2.5 years, but I’ve got MRSA on the run and episode free for a year and a half. The only problem is my husband popped positive for MRSA about a year ago and we’re trying to stay clear, we’re both immunocompromised and it’s a real, exhausting, expensive fight, but we’re doing ok so far.
best of luck 🙏
Seeing this after 8 months and I know I don't know y'all but I hope you're both doing okay!!
I hope you are now still kicking MRSA’s butt!!
I had a friend that his mother was an infectious disease doctor. This is how I imagined her at work, just bc of how cool and collected she was on top of having the capacity to be very scary.
I had a massive CMV liver infection... 7yr old sis-in-law (before she was my in-law) sneezed in my mouth while I yawned. She was never "sick". I blew up like a balloon from 98lbs to 125lbs. Just all puff and my ribs hurt... I passed out at work on a stool then my mom took me to the hospital.
"I'm here to sign autographs and treat infectious diseases, and I'm all out of paperwork" _- The IDD, probably_
“First you need to culture the blood cultures…just do it.” 🤣 You do the characters so well!
Omgoodness...the very soul of these different specialists is captured so perfectly. It must take years to know how to stroke the egos of these various specialsts. Love this channel🤣🤣🤣
Infectious disease was my “closer” after two years of suffering. 👍🏼
Wow. That's such a long time to go without answers. What did you end up having? And how did the infectious disease doctor figure it out?
@@stephw.7874 I ended up with a zoonotic infection from working with felines. It’s not a disease that affects humans. I am probably the only case ever.
@@trishayamada807 now I want to know how the @&*( he figured it out or to even think of it.
@@erikburzinski8248 I had to see an infectious specialist and I had at that same time “cat scratch fever” (Bartonella), so he decided perhaps I had another feline transmitted disease. I then had to get super high doses of antibiotics that they pharmacist refused to fill because he’d never seen a dosages that high. He said he had to speak directly with my doctor. He did, I got the prescriptions although he was still leery. I had to sign a form understanding I was taking overdosages. The pharmacist was simply making sure these were correct prescriptions. I did end up having lymph nodes removed because they never settled down.
The ID team helped my daughter immensely this summer. Definitely a group I’ll bow down to.
My friend was in the hospital for a week and it looked grim. They called in an infection specialist and he was out of the hospital 2 hours later.
This is like the best Valentine to ID. Thanks so much. Love, an ID doc in Boston, not ready to take up Bolivian pig farming yet.
Reading through these replies it seems the universal opinion of both patients and docs is that you all are even more impressive IRL. I'm seriously impressed O_o
Damn I didn’t know infectious disease drs are so revered. Been seeing one for Lyme, he’s great
This is a great parody of literally every episode of House MD
Lol!!! This kind of happened to me (as a patient). I was sick for WEEKS, in and out of the hospital. Someone FINALLY had the idea to call in an infectious disease specialist. Dude walks in, takes one look at me, gives me a correct diagnosis. I was so fuckin mad it took that long for what could’ve been a 10 min visit in the first place.
Gotta know the right doctor to go to.
@@tmacfan824 but that is what the doctors are for....
Was it C. diff?
What was it
Oh man! I work with an ID doc and I can say that they are so to the point because they don’t have time for niceties. They are extremely busy because they are consulted so often due to how good they are. What you went through really sucks, I am so glad that you finally got the care you needed!
When he said "first, you've got to culture the blood culture" I felt that
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣 spot on. When the ID consultant comes to ICU to discuss a pt, I grab the popcorn!
There it is. You just basically described the 8 seasons of House MD in a youtube short.
Infectious disease doctors are now my new favorite! Love this guy.
Bolivine pig farming!? Only the closer knows😂😂
Bolivians don't even know about that... It's like a government secret
We already know, shhh
Once upon a time I was admitted to the hospital and the infectious disease team had to run a test for leptospirosis on me after returning from a hike in Hawaii where feral pigs swam in the river… this whole short hits way too close to home 😂
sorry to hear that. im from hawaii.
I was in the hospital over the summer with a particularly awful case of double pneumonia, I was on 3 different antibiotics over the course of 3 different weeks. I ended up in the hospital and after 2 days of not responding to antibiotics they called in the infectious disease doctor, after a single visit he figured out it was blastomycosis. He asked me only like three questions.
What the heck is blastomycosis? And how do you get it?
Can relate, I had an infection on a meniscus surgery which happened 2 weeks afterwards. The infectious disease doctors were smart af
Lol I swear the guy acted like that when I got MRSA and needed a wound vac.The man actually wore blue suede shoes... he was the coolest dude in icu lol
This is so true to life. This is my favorite of all the clips.
WTF 100K this is the fastest growth in history!!
LET'S GOOOOO
Just like those cultured cultures
Everyone is migrating to the real world👍🏼
Exponential growth ;)
He cultured the subscribe button
I was NOT prepared to hear "bolivian pigs farmer" on a Dr. Hause vibes~ sketch. I am Bolivian and it's just SO weird to just hear anything about the country on UA-cam. It went from funny to hilarious for me. Great job!