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health care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk, episode 126. I'm

your co-host, Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Patel. And today with us, we have a guest contributor, Dr.

Morgan Anderson. Dr. Anderson actually is an alumna of RFU College of Pharmacy from the very first

inaugural class in 2015. So great to have you here, Dr. Anderson. Hi, T-Bowl. Thanks for having me on today.

And for the listeners, just to give a little background of why we have Dr. Anderson today,

the title of today's episode is, Alex. I'll take interococcal resistance patterns and treatments for

$1,000, kind of an ode to the late Alex Trebek. And we're talking about

interoccal infections today. So what better person to have on the podcast than someone who is

an expert in all things infectious diseases? Dr. Anderson, just to kind of orient the audience to

your background. So you did a PGI1 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital all the way up in

Chile, Minneapolis, Minnesota, PGI2 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

And now you are currently practicing as an infectious diseases clinical pharmacy specialist

at Advocate Aurora Health, focusing on two community hospitals in the Chicagoland area.

Dr. Anderson, welcome, and thank you so much for your expertise today.

Thank you.

So like many other Helix Talk episodes, we're going to kind of set the stage a little bit with

a patient case.

So Dr. Fettel, maybe you can kick off our patient case and kind of put it into context of

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