Marcus laughed out loud. A real, genuine laugh. He hadn't laughed in weeks.
His board exams were in six weeks. He was going to fail. He was going to be the first med student in history to be defeated by a bacterium named Coxiella burnetii . microbiology made ridiculously simple latest edition
The book had impossible things: cartoons of antibiotic mechanisms as little wrecking balls (penicillins breaking the purple wall), molecular mimics as con artists tricking your immune system (rheumatic fever), and a full-page diagram of the “Z-Pak Highway” showing exactly where azithromycin gets stuck in traffic. Marcus laughed out loud