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This blog grew out of a simple realization: we all carry ideas, doubts, and clinical questions that rarely make it to paper. Here, I try to slow down and write through the nuances of infectious diseases—diagnostics, antimicrobials, and the everyday clinical decisions shaped by evidence, experience, and interpretation rather than certainty. Posts from Substack (ID)as & Op(ID)nions.
Subscribe on Substack- Soil, Streptomyces, and the Microbes That Changed Medicine
Sometimes the biggest revolutions are right beneath our feet
2/6/2026
- From Helminths to Protozoa: The Language and Life of Parasites
A general guide to parasitology—and a short class in etymology
11/7/2025
- Pumping, Plugging, and Protecting: The Hidden Logic of Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance Mechanisms, Part II: The Other Ways Out
10/31/2025
- Gentamicin in Infective Endocarditis: friend, foe, or just folklore?
Rethinking aminoglycosides in Infectious Endocarditis
10/1/2025
- TB Prevention in a Month? Yes, Really!
1HP - Shorter, safer, and surprisingly under-the-radar
9/12/2025
- Bartonella: From the Andes to the Cat Scratch
The bacilli that shaped Andean medicine, haunted the trenches of war, and still hides in our cats.
9/8/2025
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
Moving Beyond Gentamicin, Ampicillin, and Metronidazole for Peripartum Infections
8/30/2025
- Why Some Antibiotics Just Don’t Stand a Chance: Understanding β-Lactamases
Part I of Many: Decoding How Gram-Negatives Outsmart Antibiotics
8/21/2025
- Saving the Horseshoe Crab: Why We Should Rethink BDG Testing
BDG: The Overrated Biomarker
8/14/2025
- The CMV Resistance Puzzle
Making Sense of Mutations and Treatment
8/4/2025
- Don’t Call Me Viridans: I Have a Name
A case for dropping viridans and viridans group labels in bloodstream infections
7/19/2025
- Echo Inconclusive? Here’s How to Navigate Endocarditis Imaging
Understanding the roles of cardiac CT, PET/CT, and SPECT/CT in diagnosing native and prosthetic valve infections.
7/12/2025
- The Beginning
Just wanted to tell the origins for this blog.
7/11/2025