Gretchen Arnoczy MD
@gretchengerms.bsky.social
Infectious diseases physician at FirstHealth of the Carolinas. Community ID doc. Medicine geek. Loves cool cases, nice people, and my patients. Here for community and learning.
I feel personally attacked 😆
Plague is a high-consequence infectious disease with epidemic potential.
The latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes new research evaluating ciprofloxacin versus aminoglycoside–ciprofloxacin for bubonic plague in Madagascar. 👉 nej.md/DrG27
The latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social summarizes new research evaluating ciprofloxacin versus aminoglycoside–ciprofloxacin for bubonic plague in Madagascar. 👉 nej.md/DrG27
October 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I feel personally attacked 😆
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"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
September 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda
How quick we forget.
How quick we forget.
Once upon a time I grew up in Florida. I drank slurpees from 7-11 and burned my bare feet on hot asphalt. 1/9
a man is drinking a 7 eleven pepsi through a straw
ALT: a man is drinking a 7 eleven pepsi through a straw
media.tenor.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Once upon a time I grew up in Florida. I drank slurpees from 7-11 and burned my bare feet on hot asphalt. 1/9
Bad news for all the Make-A-Wish kids who go to Disney World in between chemo treatments. 😭
We are Through the Looking Glass now. Ladapo is barking mad, and I mean actually deranged. And please stop calling him a skeptic. He’s a full out anti-vaxxer and denialist. This only ends badly not just for Florida, but for the entire country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Florida to end vaccine mandates for children as state’s surgeon general likens them to ‘slavery’
Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Bad news for all the Make-A-Wish kids who go to Disney World in between chemo treatments. 😭
Reposted by Gretchen Arnoczy MD
This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.
My daughter: here I have a doctor’s note.
Teacher: this says, “Sorry she’s late, the barista at Starbucks started crying so our drinks took forever.”
My daughter: …
Teacher: …
My daughter: she IS a doct-
Teacher: Go to class.
Teacher: this says, “Sorry she’s late, the barista at Starbucks started crying so our drinks took forever.”
My daughter: …
Teacher: …
My daughter: she IS a doct-
Teacher: Go to class.
May 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
My daughter: here I have a doctor’s note.
Teacher: this says, “Sorry she’s late, the barista at Starbucks started crying so our drinks took forever.”
My daughter: …
Teacher: …
My daughter: she IS a doct-
Teacher: Go to class.
Teacher: this says, “Sorry she’s late, the barista at Starbucks started crying so our drinks took forever.”
My daughter: …
Teacher: …
My daughter: she IS a doct-
Teacher: Go to class.
Trying not to let the Hospitalist on the phone hear me googling in the background…
March 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trying not to let the Hospitalist on the phone hear me googling in the background…
Is the best thing about the @wintercourseid.bsky.social week the amazing lectures? Getting to know ID colleagues better? Probably. But this Campfire Hot Cocoa during the break tastes a little like magic…
February 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Is the best thing about the @wintercourseid.bsky.social week the amazing lectures? Getting to know ID colleagues better? Probably. But this Campfire Hot Cocoa during the break tastes a little like magic…
Reposted by Gretchen Arnoczy MD
Infectious disease doctors watching them mess with public health and USAID
February 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Infectious disease doctors watching them mess with public health and USAID
Skepticism is good. Blindly ignoring decades of data? Not good.
"Given the lack of appropriate guardrails that would normally prevent an anti-vaccine activist, science denialist and conspiracy theorist from heading the country’s most important public health agency, it’s a dangerous time to be a child in the USA."
Read this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
Read this!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
Opinion | RFK Jr. Is a Vaccine Cynic, Not Skeptic. (Gift Article)
My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Skepticism is good. Blindly ignoring decades of data? Not good.
Great reminders about rabies info! I get these questions all the time 🦇
Great opportunity to talk about rabies exposure! A lot of commenters are saying that rabies shots are needed RIGHT NOW. This is not true. Possible exposure to rabies requires urgent attention, but it’s generally not an emergency.
GUYS
I JUST FOUND A BAT IN MY KITCHEN CUPBOARD
I JUST FOUND A BAT IN MY KITCHEN CUPBOARD
December 11, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Great reminders about rabies info! I get these questions all the time 🦇
Day 10
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
December 5, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Day 10
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Sneezed while my cat was in my lap.
Ever since she’s been giving me this look.
Ever since she’s been giving me this look.
December 4, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Sneezed while my cat was in my lap.
Ever since she’s been giving me this look.
Ever since she’s been giving me this look.
Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent free.
Study: Majority Of U.S. Population One Disappointing Sandwich Away From Complete Mental Breakdown — theonion.com/study-majori...
Study: Majority Of U.S. Population One Disappointing Sandwich Away From Complete Mental Breakdown — theonion.com/study-majori...
December 2, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent free.
Study: Majority Of U.S. Population One Disappointing Sandwich Away From Complete Mental Breakdown — theonion.com/study-majori...
Study: Majority Of U.S. Population One Disappointing Sandwich Away From Complete Mental Breakdown — theonion.com/study-majori...
Reposted by Gretchen Arnoczy MD
$100/night hotel: hi. we have you for 3 nights. checkout’s whenever. enjoy the 24 hour gym & pool that smell like chlorine & feet, in that order. unlimited breakfast - you can eat costco sausages til you die for all we care
$275/night hotel: OHHH, so his royal highness expects FREE WIFI, does he???
$275/night hotel: OHHH, so his royal highness expects FREE WIFI, does he???
December 1, 2024 at 8:41 PM
$100/night hotel: hi. we have you for 3 nights. checkout’s whenever. enjoy the 24 hour gym & pool that smell like chlorine & feet, in that order. unlimited breakfast - you can eat costco sausages til you die for all we care
$275/night hotel: OHHH, so his royal highness expects FREE WIFI, does he???
$275/night hotel: OHHH, so his royal highness expects FREE WIFI, does he???
Day 9
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
December 1, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Day 9
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Day 8
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
November 30, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Day 8
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Reposted by Gretchen Arnoczy MD
Bacteria more sensitive
Boastful gesture
🤝
MIC drop
Boastful gesture
🤝
MIC drop
November 29, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Bacteria more sensitive
Boastful gesture
🤝
MIC drop
Boastful gesture
🤝
MIC drop
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Geriatrician: Don't send that cup for a UA/UC. Patient has no urinary symptoms. Please consider alternative diagnoses.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Geriatrician: Don't send that cup for a UA/UC. Patient has no urinary symptoms. Please consider alternative diagnoses.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Geriatric Psychiatrist: Recommend discontinuing anticholinergic medications to address this confusion
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Geriatric Psychiatrist: Recommend discontinuing anticholinergic medications to address this confusion
Optimist:The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
ER doc: Hang 20cc/kg of NS please while we figure out the underlying reason why its IVC is flat
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
ER doc: Hang 20cc/kg of NS please while we figure out the underlying reason why its IVC is flat
November 24, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Geriatrician: Don't send that cup for a UA/UC. Patient has no urinary symptoms. Please consider alternative diagnoses.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Geriatrician: Don't send that cup for a UA/UC. Patient has no urinary symptoms. Please consider alternative diagnoses.
Reposted by Gretchen Arnoczy MD
This wrecks me—every single time.
November 29, 2024 at 12:49 PM
This wrecks me—every single time.
November 29, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Day 7
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
November 28, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Day 7
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Reposted by Gretchen Arnoczy MD
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.
November 27, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.