Episode 16 - The Bundle 2.0

The Bundle 2.0 is here. In this episode of The Host Response, Dr. Paul Bunce and returning guest Dr. Brooke Fraser take another rapid-fire tour through what’s catching their attention across infectious diseases and adjacent domains: teaching tools worth knowing, papers that may shift practice, ideas from outside ID that still matter, and the small-but-important clinical pearls that surface in everyday work.

We cover:

• ID teaching tools worth your time, including Open Evidence and the Breakpoints podcast.

  www.openevidence.com

  https://breakpoints-sidp.org/episodes/

• Literature we’re thinking about, from cardiac complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae to whether immunosuppression really needs to be held during infection.

  https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf453/8244960

  https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaf442/8232734?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false#google_vignette

• Reflections from beyond medicine, including writing on polarization in healthcare and why “giving” may actually be a strategic advantage.

  https://macleans.ca/society/health/a-doctors-plea-for-civil-discourse/

  
  

• Safe-space learning, featuring fluoroquinolone-associated tendinopathy and a practical look at divalent-cation interactions with dolutegravir and common antibiotics.

  https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8247/18/2/184

  https://accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcph.439

If you’re an ID clinician, general internist, resident, or simply ID-adjacent and curious, this one is packed with things you can actually use.