Ellen Kitchell, MD, FIDSA, AAHIVM-S

We are canceling our trip to Canada to spend his limited time with our brave cat on this plane of existence. Anyone have any reading suggestions for us? The longer and more tragic the better

Congratulations Canada! You give us hope...I have really bony elbows too!

I hope to live up to the example of my brave and wonderful fellowship director Roger Bedimo!

Scientific Integrity Under Threat: The Role of the IDSA, PIDS, and SHEA Journals in an Evolving Political Landscape The landscape of scientific publishing, education, and healthcare research is facing unprecedented challenges as political decisions increasingly encroach on academic freedom, data accessibility, and global health priorities.

Scientific Integrity Under Threat: The Role of the @idsainfo.bsky.social @pidsociety.bsky.social and @sheaepi.bsky.social Journals in an Evolving Political Landscape

We can make choices to let people with TB die...or we can be the cure. Overall this book gave me a lot of hope despite dark times, there are still a lot of wonderful folks out there fighting for the dignity and health of those with TB. I'm glad to be a small part of that community.

Just finished reading "Everything is Tuberculosis"by John Green.
As a provider who's cared for at least 1000 patients with active TB...this book re-emphasized that the real threat is humanity, not the bacillus...

Today -

At times, Dallas can be miraculous...

I think that there were some cheers for the Canadians too!
Personally I just hope both teams had fun 😉

What does the Parkland HIV team do when not hard at work? We go out to cheer for the Dallas Stars, of course!! #weareUTSWID #Dallasatheart @ellenkitchell.bsky.social @bradcutrellmd.bsky.social

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

hurts

Pause, and read...

• Ellen Bass •

It's really scary...never thought I would see measles and am reading up on the clinical presentation. Checking titers to protect who I can.

Should I also point out the OB and ID care deserts in Texas? The antiquated antibiotic recommendations that need urgent reevaluation in light of sepsis numbers like this?! #IDsky

Reposting bc it is very timely.

#vaccination saves lives

“HPV vaccination has been recommended for routine use in US women since June 2006.”

#medsky #IDsky

If my cat gets avian flu I will John Wick.

From @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social 's book, Exploding Head.

#poem #cynthiamariehoffman #poetry #books

“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.”

Adrienne Rich, Natural Resources in Dreams of a Common Language

A page of a book likely named “Stars at Last”. The poem title seems to be “burn the family tree down”. The poem reads: “I am the villain for not being meek for not falling into place with the long line of women before me. silence meant survival but I don't just want to exist, I want to live. I am the first to start the smoke so that my daughter can breathe fire.”

Blood does not beget loyalty.

This is making me think about the scene in Fahrenheit 451 where the protagonist had to memorize Ecclesiastes because all the books were burned...

I use the STI guidelines so often in my day to day work. Thankfully folks archived these resources.
We have had an ongoing STI epidemic in the US for the past 5 years. Congenital syphilis rates that are among the highest for developed countries.
People use CDC guidelines globally too!

This is a chaotic and frightening time for researchers, but it is likely more terrifying for patients. As an infectious diseases doctor, I want to say that we are still here. We are advocating for you, and care about you: people with HIV, immigrants, transgender folks, and everyone else. #IDsky

I didn't realized how obsessed he was with plums! The other one is my favorite but this is wonderful too...

For my patients at the HIV clinic:

Know Your Rights: Health Care Providers & Immigration Enforcement Information for health care providers on how to prepare for and respond to enforcement actions by immigration officials and interactions with law enforcement.

My sister is a healthcare lawyer and recommended these resources:

www.nilc.org/resources/he...

www.nilc.org/resources/fa...

If law enforcement or ICE do show up, always recommend contacting your institution’s legal counsel immediately.

Does the warrant need to be from a local judge or federal?

This helps soothe the soul right now. #poetry #hope #nature #resist #bluecrew #teamjustice

Omg I forgot the Straight Story! Makes me proud to be an Iowan