Preface

I am about to embark on my first clinical rotation as a fellow in infectious diseases in Toronto. For me, this will represent the culmination of the past ten or so years of my academic and professional life.

I embark on this journey having recently spent a year as the chief resident at the Toronto General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital. During that time, I started a daily teaching blog based on cases taught at morning report. It was well received and served as a good informal reference. So I thought I would press my luck during my ID fellowship.

I have managed to pre-populate this blog with ID related posts from the past year and will continue on -- with daily (likely) posts on clinical topics in Infectious Diseases based upon real cases/clinical questions.

Day # 335 - Severe Influenza

Today we discussed a case that I have talked about before of severe influenza. This case highlights several key issues -- the most important is pointing out just how sick young patients can get with influenza.

We have previously talked about influenza here and pneumonia here.