Plagdle - Daily Infectious Disease Puzzle Game
Test your medical knowledge! Guess the daily infectious disease based on symptoms, treatment, and characteristics. A new puzzle every day!
๐ Like Wordle but wish it involved plagues?
It's not quite the same -- there's no spelling just a series of clues in a similar feedback loop as Wordle -- but it's pretty cool! Complements of an anonymous med student on Reddit.
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31.08.2025 18:46 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
Standing on the shoulders of Edward H. Kass
โWithout minimising the great advance made by Kass in the diagnosis of UTI, it is
none the less important to recognise its limitations.โ Rosalind Maskell, 1989 [1].
โStanding on the shoulders of imperfect humansโ continues w/ a review by @anniejoseph.bsky.social of the Kass criteria for significant bacteriuria named after EH Kass. Still widely used in the clinic but where did 10^5 CFU/mL come from & is it still relevant? www.cmi-comms.org/article/S295...
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18.08.2025 13:02 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Keeping this for an upcoming journal club
18.08.2025 19:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable and more sycophantic
This is a wild paper on the performance of warm/empathetic AI models in medical reasoning. This is the start of whatever we're calling a #Thread on Bluesky. A #Skeeterfall? A #SkeetShoot? A #Skeetitorial?
arxiv.org/html/2507.21...
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13.08.2025 23:53 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Our new study published. We were surprised to see that carriers have a high baseline risk that antibiotics don't add on it. Among non carriers BLBLI posed the highest risk. Overall the conclusion as always is- be judicious: use the shortest regimen and try to avoid unnecessary treatment
13.08.2025 05:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I was asking myself almost the same question when a febrile neutropenic patient grew salmonella in her blood. I switched to targeted therapy but evidence is lacking
11.01.2025 11:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Year In Review: Top Infectious Diseases Articles From 2024
In this articleย a selection of notable peer-reviewed publications from 2024 are provided. Article Selection by:ย Bassam Ghanem, Pharm.D., MS, BCPS Articleย Construction by:ย Timothy P. Gauthier, Pharm.D....
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Year In Review: Top Infectious Diseases Articles From 2024
Our new post, a great collaboration with my friend
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1๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃโก๏ธ๐ RCTs
7๏ธโฃSyst Reviews/Meta
3๏ธโฃ๐Guidelines โจ๏ธWiki_Guidelines
#idsky #EMIMCC #medsky #utisky
EnJoy
Share plz!
www.idstewardship.com/year-review-...
11.12.2024 23:47 โ ๐ 119 ๐ 52 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 8
Saving this for an upcoming journal club, thanks!
10.12.2024 08:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
ืคืจืง 27: ืชืจืืื ืืฉืืืจืืจ
ืกืืคืืจ ืืฉืจืืื ยท Episode
An extremely heartbreaking, tragic story that made me understand the deep scars that women who were assaulted as childs carry with them into adulthood, it's been 7 years since I listened to this, I would not do it again but I think I would be different without it
You didn't ask for fun...
01.12.2024 19:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Love this, my primary focus is ID and infection control but I also practice as an IM in a similar virtual hospital setting, and it's truly the future and does so well for our patients
01.12.2024 14:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
#idboardreview 25 M from North Carolina presents w/ 1wk of flu like sx, facial swelling, fever & myalgia. Consumed undercooked bear meat 3 wks ago; eosinophilia. โฌ๏ธcpk. Diagnosis? #medEd #idmedEd #idtwitter #IDsky #idfellows #idfellowship
26.11.2024 00:51 โ ๐ 26 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1
Is anyone here using 405 nm LED lights for environmental disinfection in their hospital? Does it make a difference?
25.11.2024 10:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
This is great, everything just makes sense
24.11.2024 20:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Great ideas, we are looking into real time hand hygiene, and I am not sure what my opinion is on uv devices, will definently have to see more data.
And thanks for the starter pack!
24.11.2024 19:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
These are amazing points, but I'm still trying to focus on the design part. We hopefully will also have the time for training but the first patient is due to be admitted in a few years from now so we're trying to see how to actually build the hospital
24.11.2024 19:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Amazing!
Thanks
24.11.2024 17:17 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Trying this posting thing for the first time
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Any infection prevention people here?
If you could design your dream hospitalโthe most technologically advanced and greatest medical establishment possibleโwhat elements would you include to minimize hospital-acquired infections?
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24.11.2024 16:40 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0
Thanks for the introduction to this platform, great to see you here
24.11.2024 13:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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