Jamie Murphy

"She was gram positive for bacteria".

When the FRCPath exam doesn't go your way.

5% of med students are from working class background. This is one the of poorest levels of representation across professions.
It is intellectual sleight of hand to use a few high performing state schools (frequently in affluent areas) to suggest medicines class diversity is improving.

No David, still there just deactivated while have a substantive job application in process haha!

Shorter vs. standard-duration antibiotic therapy for nocardiosis: a multi-center retrospective cohort study - Infection Purpose The prolonged treatment recommended for nocardiosis does not rely on strong evidence. Consequently, some clinicians opt shorter therapy in certain circumstances. We assessed the effectiveness ...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Short-term vs long term abx treatment for nocardia infections

#OncID #idsky

E coli found in water supply of properties of south-east London Residents of properties in Brockley advised to boil water until results of tests by Thames Water are returned

From beaches to bathtubs - water quality in the #UK is not what it should be!

#IDSky #EpiSky

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

a man in a superhero costume with a helmet on Alt: a man in a superhero costume with a helmet on

Microbiology: Antman (obviously)

Microbes may be small but they can be mighty. Slept on as a specialty but can be clutch with the septic patient with peculiar history

also often disproportionately quite good looking like paul rudd

Time to Staphylococcus aureus blood culture positivity is a useful marker for infective endocarditis

This retrospective cohort study of >1700 cases of SAB suggests that if TTP > 13 hrs, the patient is unlikely to have endocarditis (NPV 96%, 95%CI 95-97)

academic.oup.com/cid/advance-... #IDSky

Family left 'in tears' after Sikh man's beard cut The man's family say

Culturally competent care is so important - we must do better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes, we are.

My baubles haven't dropped yet. Might explain my high pitched voice.

4 homs, 4 tequila shots(X3), 4 hang overs.

Omg amazing!

Working with paediatricians quite closely currently and they are absolutely so much better at this than adult doctors. Low threshold to start - but negative cultures at 48 hours & the antibiotics are stopped.

I think Supacell is one of the best superhero shows I've seen in a long time.

Yeah it was ok it's just the training class - so will see haha.

Cheers pal, not a bad result for 6 months!

CrossFit a go when I was in better shape and well, today was it. (Twitter saw it first)

I just did my first CrossFit foundation class - over COVID I gained significant amounts of weight and that pic on the right was me at my heaviest 99kg in Feb, I restarted the gym on May 15th and have cleared just shy of 20kg in just over 6 months.
I promised myself I'd give

Oh fuck, just realised people can see likes on this platform.

I am 5'7 going on a date with a 6'5 man next week.

The bus wasn't running so walked to Waterloo. Glad I did.

Bearded man ecstatic to be back in the 5am club.

I had to delete that previous reply - going to try and keep this professional.

I keep getting ghosted after telling people I'm an infection specialist on Tinder.

They must envisage an exciting career working with dangerous imported pathogens.

When the reality is leaving passive aggressive e-notes to stop the meropenem and anidulafungin.

A lecture theatre full of people, at The STEM Village Immunology Symposium in Manchester

Yesterday was such a special day, being surrounded by LGBTQ+ immunologist from around the world, as well as allies. Over the years, many people have asked why we need these events, so here’s a couple of reasons 1/🧵

#LGBTQSTEM #Immunosky 🧪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Hahaha.

Well, I go in the morning then head to work straight after. So will have my breakfast and my lunch - which I'm sure you could work out.

Yeah it's good - I got the 30 litre I think it's big enough for gym, change of clothes, shoes and food.