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Hello, hello everyone.

Welcome to another Rafael Medina, virtual morning report. I'm Yusef. I'm a resident in Atlanta.

I'm very, very excited for our infectious disease session today. We have Dr. Spottiswood with us today.

Would you mind introducing yourself and tell us why trainees should go into infectious disease?

Hi, thanks so much, Yusuf. So yeah, my name is Natasha Spottiswood, but please call me Natasha, because Spottiswood is way too long.

And in terms of why people should go into ID, I have a couple reasons.

First, you get to be a detective.

You get to solve all the weird, mysterious problems that people have.

Secondly, you get to be an advocate. You get to work for people who have oftentimes been marginalized, have not necessarily been well treated by society and who are at

higher risk of infections. So you get to be an advocate, you get to be a mystery solver. And thirdly,

you kind of get to engage with issues that change the world. We are all becoming doctors or

healthcare providers in an age of outbreaks, in an age of plagues. And so that makes us very, very,

very relevant in the world that we live in.

Tasha, thank you for this inspiring message. And I want to introduce Naveila Sharif.

Navila was my intern last year.

And I just wanted to tell a small story.

One of our patients, unfortunately, had, we wanted to do a lumbar puncture to rule out like a cerebral infection.

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