Infectious Diseases doc especially re: Sub-Saharan Africa. Partial to HIV, TB, malaria. "Ah, fellow bug man!" - Dr John McDermott.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined October 2019
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My favourite infection control strategy - the CRE / C. auris swimming pool cleanse: 5- star recommendation
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Few things expose the raw deficiencies of bad politics like infectious diseases
#Cholera
#TheRealJohnSnow
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If you’re a virus, particularly HIV or SARS-CoV-2, then I actually feel sorry for you if @LindaGailBekker is around. She’s giving the Wits Division of ID talk today at 3 pm on one of the great, new developments in HIV: long-acting injectables in HIV
wits-za.zoom.us/j/3499281592
Semmelweis pioneered this seemingly simple intervention at great personal cost so we can celebrate #HandHygieneDay not just once a year but every. single. day.
@Netcare_Limited #HappyBirthdayx2
“Practice changing masterclass” - acc to 16/16 SA ID docs on our WhatsApp gp (no control gp but still - 100%!)- big shout out and thanks to @BradSpellberg - your talk raised the roof and the bar
Described as an ‘iconoclast’ at #ECCMID2023 , the Wits Division of ID can’t wait to have @BradSpellberg giving his ‘Shorter is Better’ talk tomorrow. For the first time on the African continent, catch it here:
wits-za.zoom.us/j/3499281592
Thanks to @syctong for planting the seed.
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Described as an ‘iconoclast’ at #ECCMID2023 , the Wits Division of ID can’t wait to have @BradSpellberg giving his ‘Shorter is Better’ talk tomorrow. For the first time on the African continent, catch it here:
wits-za.zoom.us/j/3499281592
Thanks to @syctong for planting the seed.
“He’s not posh. Father was a doctor. Bought all his own furniture”
- Succession, season 3
This would be a terrible burn, unless of course the furniture is Danish 😍
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Say what you want about South Africa, but man does it tell a story well. Amongst the master storytellers must surely be the Keiskamma Trust, pictured here a detail from the mesmerising 'Keiskamma Guernica' on exhibition at @VisitConHill - it'll remind you why you do what you do
So @poplak, has the new mayor of Johannesburg set up his Pothole War Room yet?
#JoburgMayor
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Recent events have confirmed our suspicions that the only crypto worth investigating and investing in is cryptococcal meningitis.
#IDtwitter
Excellent thread on the as-yet unknown pneumonia in Argentina. Our boxes of N95 masks haven't even had a chance to cool off yet.
San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
- 8 healthcare workers and 1 patient ill
- Symptoms: fever, myalgia, abdominal pain, dyspnea
- 6 cases with bilateral pneumonia
- Multiple requiring technical ventilation
- 3 of 9 have died
So what could this be?
paho.org/en/documents/inform…
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Constitutional Court ruling in favour of the TAC mother to child HIV transmission case. We, and many of our pts are here today because of this. We've come a long way since then - thank you to our mentors @FrancoisVenter3 @LindaGailBekker
A patient from a posh neighbourhood consulted me today. During the exam, with an irony apparent to only one of us, he declared he suffered from white-collar hypertension.
#silentepidemic
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Chag Sameach - You've probably played this on one of your shows, but just in case, here's some Satchmo
youtube.com/watch?v=8JNCS27r…
With all the changes in isolation and quarantine recommendations for South Africa, do we still need to sing Happy Birthday twice while sanitising our hands?
'Semper aliquid novi Africam adferre'
...thanks Pliny the Elder. Thanks a lot.
#B.1.1.529
#fourthwave
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People: Why do you love South Africa/ Jozi/ vaccines?
Me: because this👇
#VaccineRollOutSA
The Mzansi Gay Choir with @ThamiDish coming to get vaccinated at Hillbrow CHC. With the One Revolution Brass Band from Alexandra who performed for Healthworkers and celebrate their role in the fight against COVID-19 ❤️
One can't even wish 'a pox upon them' to the anti-vaxxer, covid-denying protesters outside Groote Schuur Hospital because the pox was eradicated with a vaccine decades ago.
#VaccineRollOutSA
#COVID19SA
SA vaccine centres, hope you've displayed the WiFi password clearly at the entrance, because the GenZs and Millennials are coming!
And if they don't, then let's wave some data bundles in the air like dollar bills in a hip-hop music video..
#VaccineRollOutSA
It takes a village to raise a child...but it only takes a handful of ICU nurses to de-prone a precious covid patient - seriously, those Covid ICU nurses are the real superheroes. Deproning took 5 years off my life but they just cruised through it..amazing humans.
#ThirdWave