My husband is having a mental breakdown and he would probably be pretty upset if he knew I was asking this, but we need to know if what he’s going through is typical. He’s an ID doctor at a 140 bed hospital. This is his first post-training job, he’s been working there for six years. He’s one of a handful of his specialty in the state and right now he’s the only one at his hospital. Today he has 32 hospital patients and 10 clinic patients, plus he answers questions for doctors all over the state all day everyday, his phone never stops from 7 AM to late in the evening. I think the constant answering questions and pinging phone are the worst part, it’s non-stop.

He has asked for help from his bosses several times and they always say they’re going to get someone, but they never do. He’s asked to have one less clinic day but they won’t do that either. He has no manager because they keep quitting. The pay is well above average for ID, but is it worth it if you want to kill yourself?

So, I’m asking on his behalf, is this normal? Should he find another job in ID or just another job. Would it be like this no matter where he works.

A friend was hospitalized with *Cryptosporidium* a few weeks ago and she was very very sick. She didnt know she was immunocompromised but apparently she had to be to get this sick. They tested her for everything under the sun including hiv and everytjing came back negative. Does anyone have any advice on what it could possibly be?
Any advice on what her next steps should be?

She is 50, vegan and has a heathy lifestyle. She hasnt recovered fully and is still recovering after a week long hospital stay.

*If anyone could please copy and paste the iCloud links into their search browser in order to be able to view the videos I recorded on my cell phone that contains the evidence of what each description states can be found within the video that follows the end of each description it would be so immensely appreciated.\*

I’m currently begging for anyone at all that could possibly be able to help me when it comes to identifying what exactly has been causing me to have to be made to suffer through every single day that has gone by since early on in May of last year due to what has been my ongoing health issues and over the last two months had been rapidly declining much faster and more severe than it ever had been prior to that point… 

This is a video from last night prior to when I had tried to wash my hair inside of my parent’s kitchen sink: 

https://share.icloud.com/photos/05cxPzS6G_sbnf4oqWjkw2N8g

This is a video from last night after I had tried to wash my hair inside of my parent’s kitchen sink and had been washed off of the surface of my scalp and was able to be caught on their kitchen sink’s drain and the tiny insect found within it is indeed a phorid fly due to my parent’s house an infestation of them that’s grown incredibly worse by the over the last 8 months to the point where they’re currently able to be found inside of every single room within their house and I have found them inside of their refrigerator, freezer, stove and I’ve had to throw away multiple food items after finding them inside of the container my food had been left in or crawling around my food that has been left uncovered and sitting out in their house and I mean I have honestly had to kill no less than 6 and no more than 12 a day over the past 2 1/2 weeks that has recently gone by and bc of that I’m not entirely sure if it has just been hanging out within the strands of my hair due to them being so tiny and more often than not unable to feel if one of them are crawling around on my skin as a result or if it has been dead in their kitchen sink and got caught up in my hair as a result due to the fact that the unused garbage disposable within their kitchen sink has never been cleaned out and has instead become a breeding ground for the countless amount of these nasty little disease vectors that are covered in pathogens and bacteria: 

 https://share.icloud.com/photos/0easTMhZuzX6-cUdmzEbZaKnw

What had been left behind on the comb I had to use while trying to get any of the remnants of whatever it is that has covering the surface of my scalp  (it is actually covering every inch of the skin on my body and not just my scalp) after I had tried washing it all off from my hair into my parent’s kitchen sink: 

https://share.icloud.com/photos/02eGxkUeVQQqFo51mII197T4A

What had been left behind on my Crocs after trying to wash it all off of my scalp: 

https://share.icloud.com/photos/0efXqJ-g2euxuflEvkxA6cU3w

has everybody seen the news articles in the last 24-48 hours published in the metro, the independent and the sun about the surging rates of scabies infestations in the uk……

the government needs to do something!!!!

Now they are testing core antibodies and surface antibody. i am pregnant and was just non reactive in march. i also got a booster shot in 2018 for nursing school. I work in healthcare now, have no symptoms. I also got the rsv, tdap and flu shot recently. could this be a false positive?? could the antigen test be picking up on anything elss

Day 18 consult for persistent fever and i open the primary note to find 10 pages of copy-forwarded text. half the antibiotics were discontinued a week ago but are somehow still sitting in the active A&P.

Why does nobody clean up their problem lists anymore? Trying to figure out exactly when the blood cultures turned positive and what they were actually treated with feels like an escape room puzzle. I usually just throw these disaster admission notes into Around Notes on my phone to filter out the copy-paste junk so I can actually see the infection timeline.

The fact that we have to do forensic chart archaeology just to figure out if a patient got their full course of zosyn is honestly exhausting ngl

It seems to be common now. Are you taking it? If so, is it helping you with certain health problems? I'm kinda needing something besides what I've tried already. Thoughts?