Totally distracted by Twitter

If you're an IP and you're not on Twitter, then, um, you need to be.  I honestly get most of my ID news this way, links to journal articles that I may not have gotten to, thoughts and opinions from leaders in the field, and a super fast heads-up when stuff happens.  Also, it's just nice to know there are others out there.  And sometimes, it's just fun.

So, I occasionally daydream about having a film noir poster in the style of Bad Blood (Taylor Swift) with some kind of alter ego (like, Infektor or something), even though I'm a little old for the leather suit (not practical for the Practical ICP).   And it's a good song, and a cool video.

And sometimes something just tips you off, like @IP_Crystal98, an IP from somewhere in America who I follow on Twitter, sort of by chance.  And she says something about a parody of 'Bad Blood' called 'Bad Bugs' about antibiotic resistance.  She mentions @zdoggmd who makes cool medical music videos on YouTube, and soon I'm thinking....

So here's some alternate lyrics to Bad Blood, credit to Crystal for the idea, and IPs welcome to comment and suggest better ones.  This would be THE video for APIC 2016.  We just need some young attractive IPs for the video (wait, are there any young IPs?  I'm working on that. You should be, too.)

Cause baby now we got bad bugs

You know we used to have good drugs

So take a look what you’ve done

Cause baby now we got bad bugs

Now we got problems

But I know we can solve them

You really used too much

And baby now we got bad bugs

Hey

Did you think about this? Using every drug on the list

Couldn’t you wait for results? Using all of those empirics

Did you have to treat her?  Asymptomatic, just no need.

Did you educate him? Or just write the script so you can leave

Oh, its so sad to think about the good times, you and i

Did you think he’d be fine? Increased resistance from the last time

So don’t think it’s in the past, these kinda bugs they last and they last.

Now did you think it all through? All these things will catch up to you

And time can heal but you don’t, so if you’re writing for Invanz, just don’t

Bactrim don’t fix bullet holes

Don’t give Z-packs just for colds

If you treat like that, bugs get bold

Bactrim don’t fix bullet holes

Drug pipelines are getting cold

ASB? No cipro

When your patients ask, just say NO!

Cause baby now we got bad bugs

You know we used to have good drugs

So take a look what you’ve done

Cause baby now we got bad bugs

Now we got problems

But I know we can solve them

You really used too much

And baby now we got bad bugs