David Cretella

Father, Husband, ID Pharmacist, Nerd, VFL

[Ian Hartitz @Ihartitz]

Inspiring development to the Brendan Sorsby story. Remember, kids: Always bet on yourself.

[David Cretella @Dave_Cretella]

@SeanTrende This is a very moving piece that took a great deal of courage to write and put out there. Your son was blessed to have such a wonderful and loving family.

[Susannah Black Roberts @suzania]

A major reason that it didn’t make sense to use AI to write an essay about a substantive topic is that until you write the essay you don’t actually know what you want to say or what you think. You think you do, but it is the writing itself that actually gets the thinking done.

[Patrick T. Brown @PTBwrites]

Here is a gift link, if you want to hear my argument for why "the cultural and economic dynamics of marriage have changed because the “reservation wage” for women looking for men has gone up" -- and how we could help make young men more marriageable!

https://t.co/tjIVz0paVw

[T3 @T3Bracketology]

This shit was 100x a bigger issue to address than expanding the tournament. We are losing college sports.

[Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @ABsteward]

Stop sending urine culture for nosocomial fever workup 🔴
🌟Cystitis doesn't cause fever
🌟Urine from cath is NOT sterile
🌟(+) Urine culture # Infection
#IDXposts #mustpost

[Chris Bland @blandman19]

A significant number of patients on azole therapy have undetectable levels, highlighting important role for TDM and pharmacist expertise. #MADIDxSIDP2026

[Antibiotic Steward Bassam Ghanem 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @ABsteward]

🔥Our article in EJHP is now published🔥🌟s @drgabx @BradSpellberg

“Universal high-dose meropenem for antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative infections: evidence or overreach?”

We argue that the IDSA AMR guidance recommendation for universal high-dose meropenem (2 g IV q8h as 3h EI) for all infections other than uncomplicated cystitis is largely based on PK/PD extrapolation & expert opinion without supporting clinical outcomes data.
https://t.co/zhFI8w6Bws

[🦆 B1G Duck Energy 🦆 @B1GDuckEnergyy]

The National Guard arriving at Oxford during halftime

[Clinical Microbiology and Infection @CMIJournal]

📣 New publication: Andes hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship - an ESCMID Emerging Infections Subcommittee (EIS) rapid assessment
https://t.co/h7TpoZQ5vT

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

I finally lost it on the departmental AI survey.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

At @JAMA_current today, 2 radiologists publish what should be the consent form for a total body MRI in healthy people
Note: "no major medical society recommends whole-body MRI screening in the general population because it is unproven, and the harms likely outweigh the benefits."
https://t.co/TRSkxDwb6K

[Patrick T. Brown @PTBwrites]

My stance on phone bans in schools is that even if they have absolutely zero measurable effect on outcomes they are still worth doing because we want to habituate students into having real-life conversations and not withdrawing into digital life during lunch periods.

[JAMA @JAMA_current]

US nonprofit hospitals spent $7.8 billion on management consultants from 2009 to 2023, but contracts were not associated with meaningful changes in finance, operations, or quality of care. 🧵

https://t.co/QQswMYxrG8

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

This doesn’t apply to Paradox Interactive Games like the Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis series of course. Chicks dig a guy who understands resource management and can methodically and competently paint a map of Europe through conquest and carefully planned dynastic marriage

[Shawn Finchum @ShawnFinchum]

Tennessee already had an entertainment district it was called The Strip many years ago.

But almost 20 years ago they decided Cumberland Ave needed to be one lane both directions with a few left turn lanes which was basically the beginning of the end.

Now it’s just overpriced skyscraper apartments with chain restaurants coming in

The Strip lost its identity a long time ago.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Phone free schools cause
--increased laughter in hallways
--very loud lunchrooms
--increases in books checked out of school library

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

"The legalization of mobile sports gambling in America was a policy mistake and that the evidence is now clear enough to say so."

[Apu Akkad @ApuAkkad1]

@transplantID Anyone can start abx. It takes an expert to stop them.