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Home of "The Host Response"
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-host-response-a-firstcallid-podcast/id1813669140
firstcallID.ca
https://youtube.com/@firstcallid
Home of "The Host Response"
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-host-response-a-firstcallid-podcast/id1813669140
A retiring physician doesn't just hand over charts.
They hand over years of trust, history, and responsibility.
🎙️ New episode of The Host Response: Assuming Care from a Retiring Physician: Rebuilding Trust
#IDsky #MedEd
They hand over years of trust, history, and responsibility.
🎙️ New episode of The Host Response: Assuming Care from a Retiring Physician: Rebuilding Trust
#IDsky #MedEd
Episode 38 - Assuming Care from a Retiring Physician: Rebuilding Trust
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · October 4 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
October 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM
🎙️ Confessions of a Swabber
Superficial wound swabs are supposed to be useless. But are we taking that message too far?
When purulent drainage is present, a swab may sometimes provide a useful clue (if you can resist treating the culture).
🎧 New episode of The Host Response
#IDsky #meded
Superficial wound swabs are supposed to be useless. But are we taking that message too far?
When purulent drainage is present, a swab may sometimes provide a useful clue (if you can resist treating the culture).
🎧 New episode of The Host Response
#IDsky #meded
Episode 37 - Confessions of a Swabber
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · September 20 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
September 20, 2026 at 11:37 AM
🎙️ Beyond STI Testing: Why the Sexual History Matters in Infectious Diseases
If we’re going to test broadly anyway, why take a sexual history? Because it can guide prevention, uncover health concerns, and create a space for patients to talk openly.
🎧 New episode of The Host Response
#IDsky #meded
If we’re going to test broadly anyway, why take a sexual history? Because it can guide prevention, uncover health concerns, and create a space for patients to talk openly.
🎧 New episode of The Host Response
#IDsky #meded
Episode 36 - Beyond STI Testing: Why the Sexual History Matters in Infectious Diseases
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · September 6 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
September 6, 2026 at 5:18 PM
New episode of The Host Response 🎙️
The Clinical Window of Opportunity
Sometimes the hardest part of medicine isn’t knowing what to do. It’s recognizing when you need to do it now.
When does waiting become more dangerous than acting?
#MedEd #IDSky
The Clinical Window of Opportunity
Sometimes the hardest part of medicine isn’t knowing what to do. It’s recognizing when you need to do it now.
When does waiting become more dangerous than acting?
#MedEd #IDSky
Episode 35 - The Clinical Window of Opportunity
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · August 23 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
August 23, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Ahh yes, now here is the fancy link to Episode 34.
Episode 34 - Not It: When Every Consultant Agrees It’s Not Their Disease
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · August 9 · 6m
podcasts.apple.com
August 11, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Ahh yes, now here is the fancy link to Episode 34.
New episode of The Host Response - Not It!
🦠 “Not an infection.”
🧬 “Not autoimmune.”
🧫 “Not cancer.”
Everyone has ruled something out.
🥔 The patient becomes a diagnostic hot potato.
A look at diagnostic uncertainty and the limits of clinical certainty.
#idsky #meded
🦠 “Not an infection.”
🧬 “Not autoimmune.”
🧫 “Not cancer.”
Everyone has ruled something out.
🥔 The patient becomes a diagnostic hot potato.
A look at diagnostic uncertainty and the limits of clinical certainty.
#idsky #meded
podcasts.apple.com
August 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
New episode of The Host Response: Fever Is Not the Disease
Fever isn't a diagnosis. It's a signal.
A practical look at how this ID physician interprets one of medicine's oldest clinical clues.
🎧 Listen on Apple or Spotify
#IDSky #MedEd
Fever isn't a diagnosis. It's a signal.
A practical look at how this ID physician interprets one of medicine's oldest clinical clues.
🎧 Listen on Apple or Spotify
#IDSky #MedEd
Episode 33 - Fever Is Not the Disease: An ID Physician's Perspective
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · July 26 · 6m
podcasts.apple.com
July 26, 2026 at 5:07 PM
New episode of The Host Response - HIV: Reconstructed Memories of the Bad Old Days
I wasn't really there for the early HIV epidemic. But many of my patients were.
A reflection on what they've taught me, and why this history still matters.
🎧 FirstCallID.ca
#IDSky #HIV #MedED
I wasn't really there for the early HIV epidemic. But many of my patients were.
A reflection on what they've taught me, and why this history still matters.
🎧 FirstCallID.ca
#IDSky #HIV #MedED
Episode 32 - HIV: Reconstructed Memories of the Bad Old Days
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · July 12 · 11m
podcasts.apple.com
July 12, 2026 at 11:29 PM
New episode of The Host Response - HIV: Reconstructed Memories of the Bad Old Days
I wasn't really there for the early HIV epidemic. But many of my patients were.
A reflection on what they've taught me, and why this history still matters.
🎧 FirstCallID.ca
#IDSky #HIV #MedED
I wasn't really there for the early HIV epidemic. But many of my patients were.
A reflection on what they've taught me, and why this history still matters.
🎧 FirstCallID.ca
#IDSky #HIV #MedED
As the new academic year begins, a reminder that FirstCallID.ca is a great resource for anyone interested in Infectious Diseases or rotating through ID.
Concise, practical, high-yield teaching videos on common clinical questions.
Explore it. Learn from it. Share it.
#IDsky #FOAMed #MedEd
Concise, practical, high-yield teaching videos on common clinical questions.
Explore it. Learn from it. Share it.
#IDsky #FOAMed #MedEd
FirstCallID – ID Teaching Videos & Podcast for Trainees
Case-based ID teaching videos and a short-format podcast for trainees. Created by Dr. Paul Bunce to support real-world clinical thinking.
FirstcallID.ca
July 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM
As the new academic year begins, a reminder that FirstCallID.ca is a great resource for anyone interested in Infectious Diseases or rotating through ID.
Concise, practical, high-yield teaching videos on common clinical questions.
Explore it. Learn from it. Share it.
#IDsky #FOAMed #MedEd
Concise, practical, high-yield teaching videos on common clinical questions.
Explore it. Learn from it. Share it.
#IDsky #FOAMed #MedEd
New episode of "The Host Response":
A reflection on reputation, clinical excellence, and why visibility isn't always the best measure of value in medicine.
#IDsky #MedEd #AcademicMedicine
A reflection on reputation, clinical excellence, and why visibility isn't always the best measure of value in medicine.
#IDsky #MedEd #AcademicMedicine
Episode 31 - The Relativity of Reputation: Excellence in Academic Medicine
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · June 28 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
June 28, 2026 at 10:47 AM
New episode of "The Host Response":
A reflection on reputation, clinical excellence, and why visibility isn't always the best measure of value in medicine.
#IDsky #MedEd #AcademicMedicine
A reflection on reputation, clinical excellence, and why visibility isn't always the best measure of value in medicine.
#IDsky #MedEd #AcademicMedicine
The Bundle 5.0 is live!
Brooke Fraser returns (with some exciting news) as we discuss:
🎙️ Candidemia & ophtho screening
🎙️ Vanco tapers for C. difficile
📚 Febrile infographics & This Podcast Will Kill You
🧠 Diagnostic bias, drug fever, and why penG isn't "G" for gold standard
#IDsky #MedEd #FOAMed
Brooke Fraser returns (with some exciting news) as we discuss:
🎙️ Candidemia & ophtho screening
🎙️ Vanco tapers for C. difficile
📚 Febrile infographics & This Podcast Will Kill You
🧠 Diagnostic bias, drug fever, and why penG isn't "G" for gold standard
#IDsky #MedEd #FOAMed
Episode 30 - The Bundle 5.0
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · June 14 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
June 14, 2026 at 11:23 AM
I appreciate the allure of using "translocation" to explain infections without another obvious mechanism, but can we at least say it like "translocation?"
Listen here to the latest episode of The Host Response:
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#IDsky #meded
Listen here to the latest episode of The Host Response:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
#IDsky #meded
June 5, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I appreciate the allure of using "translocation" to explain infections without another obvious mechanism, but can we at least say it like "translocation?"
Listen here to the latest episode of The Host Response:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
#IDsky #meded
Listen here to the latest episode of The Host Response:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
#IDsky #meded
🪄✨ New episode: The Mystique of Translocation
Patient has an infection. Source unclear. Someone confidently says: "Translocation."
But is it a mechanism... or a medical version of "then a miracle occurs"?
We explore one of ID's' most beloved explanatory shortcuts. 🎙️
#IDsky #MedEd #FOAMed
Patient has an infection. Source unclear. Someone confidently says: "Translocation."
But is it a mechanism... or a medical version of "then a miracle occurs"?
We explore one of ID's' most beloved explanatory shortcuts. 🎙️
#IDsky #MedEd #FOAMed
Episode 29 - The Mystique of Translocation: An Overused Mechanism in Infectious Diseases?
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · May 31 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
May 31, 2026 at 10:42 AM
New episode of The Host Response 🎙️
D/C summaries often contain phrases like:
“repeat imaging”
“drain to be R/A”
and several new medications with no stop date. 🤞
Episode 28 explores what happens when no one is assigned ownership, but someone ends up holding the bag. 👜
#MedEd #IDsky #PrimaryCare
D/C summaries often contain phrases like:
“repeat imaging”
“drain to be R/A”
and several new medications with no stop date. 🤞
Episode 28 explores what happens when no one is assigned ownership, but someone ends up holding the bag. 👜
#MedEd #IDsky #PrimaryCare
Episode 28 - Holding the Bag: Discharge, Follow-Up, and Lost Ownership in Medicine
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · May 17 · 6m
podcasts.apple.com
May 17, 2026 at 11:14 AM
New episode of The Host Response 🎙️
D/C summaries often contain phrases like:
“repeat imaging”
“drain to be R/A”
and several new medications with no stop date. 🤞
Episode 28 explores what happens when no one is assigned ownership, but someone ends up holding the bag. 👜
#MedEd #IDsky #PrimaryCare
D/C summaries often contain phrases like:
“repeat imaging”
“drain to be R/A”
and several new medications with no stop date. 🤞
Episode 28 explores what happens when no one is assigned ownership, but someone ends up holding the bag. 👜
#MedEd #IDsky #PrimaryCare
Also highlighted in the latest Bundle 4.0:
"Towers of Silence," from 99percentinvisible.
99percentinvisible.org/episode/579-...
A haunting story of Mumbai’s Towers of Silence, where the disappearance of vultures puts an ancient funerary tradition on the brink of collapse.
"Towers of Silence," from 99percentinvisible.
99percentinvisible.org/episode/579-...
A haunting story of Mumbai’s Towers of Silence, where the disappearance of vultures puts an ancient funerary tradition on the brink of collapse.
May 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Also highlighted in the latest Bundle 4.0:
"Towers of Silence," from 99percentinvisible.
99percentinvisible.org/episode/579-...
A haunting story of Mumbai’s Towers of Silence, where the disappearance of vultures puts an ancient funerary tradition on the brink of collapse.
"Towers of Silence," from 99percentinvisible.
99percentinvisible.org/episode/579-...
A haunting story of Mumbai’s Towers of Silence, where the disappearance of vultures puts an ancient funerary tradition on the brink of collapse.
The Host Response: Bundles 4.0 is out 🎙️
Co-hosted by Dr. Brooke Fraser.
Sepsis updates, cryptococcal treatment questions, case-based learning, seasons that don’t behave… and a few things we’re still figuring out. 🧠
Listen on Spotify or Apple.
#idsky #meded
Co-hosted by Dr. Brooke Fraser.
Sepsis updates, cryptococcal treatment questions, case-based learning, seasons that don’t behave… and a few things we’re still figuring out. 🧠
Listen on Spotify or Apple.
#idsky #meded
Episode 27 - Bundles 4.0
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · May 3 · 34m
podcasts.apple.com
May 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Were you caught up in all of the ECCMID excitement to catch the latest episode of The Host Response?
We’ve got you.
This week, “Liars Who Lie.” Half-truths, selective storytelling, and the challenge of detecting overconfident inaccuracy.
🎧 Listen now:
#idsky #meded #goodshow
We’ve got you.
This week, “Liars Who Lie.” Half-truths, selective storytelling, and the challenge of detecting overconfident inaccuracy.
🎧 Listen now:
#idsky #meded #goodshow
Episode 26 - Liars Who Lie: Why Infectious Diseases depends on verifying the story
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · April 19 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
April 24, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Trust, but verify.
If it matters, confirm it yourself.
And beware of liars who lie. ⚠️
🎙️ New episode of The Host Response, a FirstcallID.ca podcast.
#idsky #meded
If it matters, confirm it yourself.
And beware of liars who lie. ⚠️
🎙️ New episode of The Host Response, a FirstcallID.ca podcast.
#idsky #meded
Episode 26 - Liars Who Lie: Why Infectious Diseases depends on verifying the story
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · April 19 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
April 19, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Trust, but verify.
If it matters, confirm it yourself.
And beware of liars who lie. ⚠️
🎙️ New episode of The Host Response, a FirstcallID.ca podcast.
#idsky #meded
If it matters, confirm it yourself.
And beware of liars who lie. ⚠️
🎙️ New episode of The Host Response, a FirstcallID.ca podcast.
#idsky #meded
The biggest downside of a biweekly podcast? That you’re left waiting on the weeks when a new episode doesn’t drop
You can still catch the latest episode of The Host Response, or any prior episodes, on Apple and Spotify (or at www.firstcallid.ca)
Coming next week: Liars Who Lie
#idsky #meded
You can still catch the latest episode of The Host Response, or any prior episodes, on Apple and Spotify (or at www.firstcallid.ca)
Coming next week: Liars Who Lie
#idsky #meded
Episode 25 - Don’t Mistake Silence for Ignorance: Clinical Reasoning and Timing in Infectious Diseases
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · April 5 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
April 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
The biggest downside of a biweekly podcast? That you’re left waiting on the weeks when a new episode doesn’t drop
You can still catch the latest episode of The Host Response, or any prior episodes, on Apple and Spotify (or at www.firstcallid.ca)
Coming next week: Liars Who Lie
#idsky #meded
You can still catch the latest episode of The Host Response, or any prior episodes, on Apple and Spotify (or at www.firstcallid.ca)
Coming next week: Liars Who Lie
#idsky #meded
ICYMI
The latest episode of The Host Response, Don't mistake silence for ignorance.
Check out this and prior episodes as well as a series of teaching videos covering an array of ID consultation scenarios at www.firstcallid.ca
#IDsky
The latest episode of The Host Response, Don't mistake silence for ignorance.
Check out this and prior episodes as well as a series of teaching videos covering an array of ID consultation scenarios at www.firstcallid.ca
#IDsky
April 9, 2026 at 2:49 AM
ICYMI
The latest episode of The Host Response, Don't mistake silence for ignorance.
Check out this and prior episodes as well as a series of teaching videos covering an array of ID consultation scenarios at www.firstcallid.ca
#IDsky
The latest episode of The Host Response, Don't mistake silence for ignorance.
Check out this and prior episodes as well as a series of teaching videos covering an array of ID consultation scenarios at www.firstcallid.ca
#IDsky
New episode 🎧 The Host Response
Not every thought needs to be said out loud.
In ID, timing matters. What you say, when you say it, and what you hold back.
Don’t mistake silence for ignorance.
Listen on Apple or Spotify
#idsky #meded
Not every thought needs to be said out loud.
In ID, timing matters. What you say, when you say it, and what you hold back.
Don’t mistake silence for ignorance.
Listen on Apple or Spotify
#idsky #meded
Episode 25 - Don’t Mistake Silence for Ignorance: Clinical Reasoning and Timing in Infectious Diseases
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · April 5 · 5m
podcasts.apple.com
April 5, 2026 at 10:44 AM
🎧 New episode of The Host Response
Choosing definitive antibiotic therapy isn’t just about picking the narrowest option. It’s a balance of spectrum, dosing, route, toxicity, patient factors, cost, and more.
How do you decide?
#idsky #meded #antibiotics
Listen here:
Choosing definitive antibiotic therapy isn’t just about picking the narrowest option. It’s a balance of spectrum, dosing, route, toxicity, patient factors, cost, and more.
How do you decide?
#idsky #meded #antibiotics
Listen here:
Episode 24 - Definitive Antibiotic Therapy: Balancing Options in Infectious Diseases
Podcast Episode · The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast · March 22 · 7m
podcasts.apple.com
March 22, 2026 at 7:38 PM
🎧 New episode of The Host Response
Choosing definitive antibiotic therapy isn’t just about picking the narrowest option. It’s a balance of spectrum, dosing, route, toxicity, patient factors, cost, and more.
How do you decide?
#idsky #meded #antibiotics
Listen here:
Choosing definitive antibiotic therapy isn’t just about picking the narrowest option. It’s a balance of spectrum, dosing, route, toxicity, patient factors, cost, and more.
How do you decide?
#idsky #meded #antibiotics
Listen here:
Reminder: If you haven’t listened yet, check out The Host Response podcast for insights, tips, and perspectives on Infectious Diseases consultation.
Perfect for anyone curious about, learning, or already practicing ID.
#IDsky #meded #IDpodcast
Perfect for anyone curious about, learning, or already practicing ID.
#IDsky #meded #IDpodcast
The Host Response: A FirstcallID Podcast
Medicine Podcast · Updated Biweekly · The Host Response is a clinically focused, practical podcast exploring Infectious Diseases and critical topics in medical practice. Designed for learners at all s...
podcasts.apple.com
March 13, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Reminder: If you haven’t listened yet, check out The Host Response podcast for insights, tips, and perspectives on Infectious Diseases consultation.
Perfect for anyone curious about, learning, or already practicing ID.
#IDsky #meded #IDpodcast
Perfect for anyone curious about, learning, or already practicing ID.
#IDsky #meded #IDpodcast