Love this!! Great work!

So it’s weird to see the state rejecting everything it ever taught me.9/9

You have to understand how odd it is. The things I learned while living in Florida propelled me into becoming a disease specialist. My formative years there taught me how important all this stuff is. 8/9

Florida is about to become a dangerous place for all those Make-A-Wish kids going to Disney World. 7/9

In the past month, my former home painted over a rainbow crosswalk under cover of darkness. Today the surgeon general of my childhood home declared that vaccine requirements for school were basically slavery. Abandoning all pretense and immunologic protection. Going full pro-disease.6/9

The thing about Florida, is it’s always been weird. It’s a weird place to live. “Florida man” and all that. But we liked it. We were proud of it. The neon flamingos, the alligators in the swimming pools. Mickey Mouse and South Beach, Florida used to be the place for the weird. 5/9

I was in Florida in med school learning from some of the best minds at USF public health when I decided to venture out to try a new state. 4/9

I was 19 that summer I left Florida for a summer internship at the CDC. I was 20 when I started volunteering at the local Northeast Florida AIDS network - helping people living with HIV in Jacksonville in the late 90s. 3/9

I was living there the first time I watched the HBO movie, “And the Band Played On…” I was home sick from high school and became riveted by the depiction of these passionate disease fighters at the CDC.

When I ask older patients if they’ve ever been exposed to TB, most say no. If I phrase it, “Have you ever known anyone who had TB?” they tell me stories of people they knew who went to McCain. www.dncr.nc.gov/blog/2024/01...

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1. Antiretroviral management when the management is “just don’t stop their Biktarvy.”
2. Cavitary lung lesion when the patient is not on isolation and no sputums have been sent because they are “waiting on the Quantiferon Gold”.
3. “Extensive purulence encountered, no cultures sent.”

Is this a plug for #ThePitt ?

Thank you for telling the story! Pathology’s win for sure!

When I find one of those, we usually have a blissful honeymoon period for about two months when everyone is happy at least one night a week. Then someone decides they’re sick of it.