There's a bug going around Granby

I spent the past weekend holed up in my apartment above the garage sick with a low-grade fever and a sore throat. I also saw a bunch of patients last week who had the same symptoms, so it's not too surprising that I got sick. This is one of the perks of being a primary care doctor.

Although, I asked my preceptor how often he gets sick; he said just once a year or so, suggesting that he tends not to catch bugs from his patients. That may be because over the years he's built up an immunity to most of the bacteria and viruses circulating through the community. The thought also occurred to me that the technique he uses when looking in the nose and throat of patients saves him from the kind of over-exposure that you might think he would get. I'm trying to pick up as much as that technique as I can.

Lucky for me, none of my patients last week tested positive for Strep throat, and all of them had been sick for less than a week.