Ashamed to have used Wikipedia.... hahahaha. That's how half of medicine is done, son. Defintely no shame using your step books... it's more than what a lot of docs reference for decisions
I jest
I second the Sanford guide, my bible of antibiotics, so excited they have an app
I love how an attending's choice of abx (not an ID guy) will not match up with the Sanford guide.... and they cannot justify the course of abx tx they are suggesting..... but no, we'll just go with our gut (the attending) on this one and not by any book written by ID
unless your hospital's biogram (who looks at that?) disagrees with the Sanford guide, the ID dept, or primary literature, then....
Anyhoo, don't push the issue with the guide with the attending. I've also had plenty of attendings who thought I was genius when I used the Sanford guide and it changed their care plan, buku points for intern, these were the attendings that really like to be evidenced based, I find that more in the ICU than the floors
USPTF app is nice for clinic when you need to know all the screening stuff to do
uptodate is not the bible people think it is, but it's a good source and usually no one is going to tell you you're an idiot if that was your source
the problem with uptodate is people do not read the reference articles for themselves
interesting things have happened when I had teaching attendings take us through some of the landmark studies that direct our practice
but most people don't have time for that **** in the hospital let alone the residents
so Wiki and UTD it is!
