Pimped: Parte 2

I suppose for this story, I wasn't actually being pimped as the question was directed at the general population. The question was what condition does Eikenella Kingella normally cause in the context of a fantastic lecture given by an ID specialist about common manifestations of rare bugs and rare manifestations of common bugs. Anyway, after a few seconds of silence followed said question, I blurted out the answer in my shitty Spanish: endocarditis. It's a HACEK organism.

The lecturer signaled that I had gotten it right: bueno. And even asked me for my name because I'd been so quiet in the last few lectures that I hadn't really existed until now. Then he told me felicitaciones. Pretty funny stuff — especially beacause it was me and 4 residents in the room, one of whom said, "huh?" when the lecturer mentioned the name of the bacteria. Anyway, on the flip side, these residents know more than me so it was nice to take advantage of some special secret trivia knowledge.

I'm still feeling stupider by the day, but the rate at which I'm feeling stupider has slowed down. You follow me — you gotta know derivatives and shit to understand that. I'm a dumb nerd.