One, two, three.

Skinny face, yeah.

Hey, what's up, fam?

It's your boys EWGMD.

I'm pissed, and I'll tell you why.

I keep getting reminders from the administrator at the hospital that I need to do my annual

TB skin testing.

And I'll tell you why I'm so mad because it doesn't work.

In other words, it's not necessary.

We spend a ton of money on annually testing healthcare professionals for tuberculosis,

and it does not provide good outcomes beyond wasting money, creating false positives, and

unnecessary further testing like chest X-ray, anxiety, stress, eye atrogenesis.

We need to stop, and I'll tell you why.

Let's start at the beginning.

What the heck is tuberculosis anyways?

Michael Bacterium tuberculosis is very slow growing organism.

So when people are exposed to it, someone coughs on you as active tuberculosis and they're

contagious because they're coughing up little Michael Bacterium, you can actually be exposed

and not have full-blown symptomatic tuberculosis.

That's called latent TB.

And because it's latent and you may not have symptoms, later when you become immunosuppressed

or you get older or something happens and triggers it to start growing, you can then

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