In his
HIV and ID Observations blog, Dr. Paul Sax writes about the privilege of being an infectious diseases specialist.
Unlike other specialists, infectious diseases doctors get to see absolutely everything that's going on in the hospital. From a patient who weighs more than 700 pounds to one with six total joint replacements of the same joint to another who started smoking at age 11, Dr. Paul Sax sees extraordinarily diverse cases. It is incredible, he says in his blog HIV and ID Observations, what ID doctors learn about medicine and people, just by doing their jobs.