Alainna J. Jamal
@alainnajj
MD, PhD @uoft.bsky.social. Infectious Diseases (ID) Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. ID epidemiology. Prevention & control of antimicrobial resistance. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸.
Literally just taking photos of aesthetic things around town all week
POV: I'm taking your social history; you tell me where you're from, I ask if that's in Vermont, then you tell me it's in Maine
My mom/dad asked me to send my wish list for June since they're coming from Toronto. The wish list is literally all food items
Me joining your ICU rounds for a mutual patient, quite literally unable to hear a word you're saying
Tfw one of the ID fellows in the year ahead of you brings you a sweet treat in the middle of the day
Me watching the slideshow iPhone hit me with at 8pm on a Wednesday night ft 18 photos it compiled of me and my bestie over the years (she lives in Toronto)
My disdain for cooking (as much as I LOVE food) can be traced back to the recipes my mom shares with me... "for a while" like what does that even mean?? Be specific people
POV: me periarrest at your bedside after climbing 16 floors because I was too impatient to wait for the elevator
Live update from Toronto - the family cat's summer body coming in strong (he's even fluffier during peak winter!) #Persiancat
On this day in 1988, Tracy Chapman released her self titled debut album, objectively one of the best albums on the planet to this day. There will never be another Tracy Chapman
@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social My mom had to hide these from me in the 1990s
When you consult the guidelines and they say to "consult an infectious diseases expert" but now you're allegedly said expert
When I leave work and it's still light out - we might make it to spring folks
If anyone is wondering what the red is from, it's iron oxide #Sedona
When you're reading an operative note that you think the surgeon wrote for ID specifically, not to centre my own specialty. Precise details around where each culture was sent from? Whether the bone looked infected? Pus encountered? Exactly which hardware came out vs stayed behind? Iconic
I've been following Cambridge, MA artist Julia Powell on social media for a while and just noticed 6 months into my fellowship that her art work is displayed in the main lobby of the ID Clinic area
@theglobeandmail.com holiday crossword printed and taped together. I'm boots on the ground in America about to have this take over my life for the next 7 days and yes I'll be bringing it to work tmw to show it off