{"id":301,"date":"2017-08-03T13:21:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T18:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=301"},"modified":"2017-08-03T13:21:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T18:21:25","slug":"dr-sue-swindells-on-why-i-love-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2017\/08\/03\/dr-sue-swindells-on-why-i-love-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sue Swindells on &#8220;Why I Love ID&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-302\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/08\/Susan-Swindells-Infectious-Disease-2014-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/08\/Susan-Swindells-Infectious-Disease-2014-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/08\/Susan-Swindells-Infectious-Disease-2014-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/08\/Susan-Swindells-Infectious-Disease-2014-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/08\/Susan-Swindells-Infectious-Disease-2014-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/08\/Susan-Swindells-Infectious-Disease-2014-120x79.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/08\/Susan-Swindells-Infectious-Disease-2014.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dr. Sue Swindells on &#8220;Why I Love ID&#8221;:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I found myself in a fancy maternity hospital in San Francisco not too long ago, while my daughter was having a baby.\u00a0 The nurses there were very excited to have an Infectious Diseases doctor in the room.\u00a0 I had thought they might be a bit nervous about my presence, but they were very happy to have me because they had lots of questions.\u00a0 More than one of them said that they thought Infectious Diseases doctors were amongst the smartest, and that we are really good at solving difficult patient problems.\u00a0 Mostly they had personal questions like whether going to Brazil on honeymoon was a good idea or not, in light of the ongoing Zika epidemic.\u00a0 That one was pretty easy to answer.<\/p>\n<p>It was very rewarding to be thought of as a \u201csmart\u201d doctor, and I do believe that many Infectious Diseases doctors that I know are very wise and thoughtful people.\u00a0 This is important in a discipline where we are mostly paid to think, rather than to do procedures or operate on people.\u00a0 I have now been an HIV doctor for more than 30 years, and can say that this disease has entirely shaped my career.\u00a0 It was unheard of when I was in medical school, and only discovered when I was a very junior doctor.\u00a0 The disease still fascinates me and I learn new things every week.\u00a0 Every year I also get Christmas cards from patients who credit me with saving their lives &#8211; there are very few professions where you actually get to save lives.\u00a0 At the risk of sounding sappy, I can honestly say I view this as a privilege.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See more about Dr. Swindells and the UNMC HIV team <a href=\"https:\/\/unmc.edu\/intmed\/divisions\/id\/hiv\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<form name=\"s2form\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/subscribe2\/\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ip\" value=\"216.73.216.113\" \/><span style=\"display:none !important\"><label for=\"firstname\">Leave This Blank:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"firstname\" name=\"firstname\" \/><label for=\"lastname\">Leave This Blank Too:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"lastname\" name=\"lastname\" \/><label for=\"uri\">Do Not Change This:<\/label><input type=\"text\" id=\"uri\" name=\"uri\" value=\"http:\/\/\" \/><\/span><p><label for=\"s2email\">Your email:<\/label><br><input type=\"email\" name=\"email\" id=\"s2email\" value=\"Enter email address...\" size=\"20\" onfocus=\"if (this.value === 'Enter email address...') {this.value = '';}\" onblur=\"if (this.value === '') {this.value = 'Enter email address...';}\" \/><\/p><p><input type=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" value=\"Subscribe\" \/>&nbsp;<input type=\"submit\" name=\"unsubscribe\" value=\"Unsubscribe\" \/><\/p><\/form>\r\n\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/voicedwhispering.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"K wqy zhvX zof\"><!-- K wqy zhvX zof --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sue Swindells on &#8220;Why I Love ID&#8221;:\u00a0 &#8220;So, I found myself in a fancy maternity hospital in San Francisco not too long ago, while my daughter was having a baby.\u00a0 The nurses there were very excited to have an Infectious Diseases doctor in the room.\u00a0 I had thought they might be a bit nervous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,3,14],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-unmchiv","tag-unmcid","tag-loveid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}