I'm a Medical Doctor, recently graduated and soon to begin my residency training. I have a nagging urge to twitter away at my keyboard, making use of my continuously developing writing skills. I've recently lived in both England and the Caribbean, although I'm now happy to be back home in California.

I'm currently serving as a member of the Helium Editorial Advisory Board as a fact-checker for medical topics.

Erich Rosenberger, MD refuses to refer to himself in the third person in a bio - even if it does help people find Erich Rosenberger, MD on the Interwebs.

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Medicine... and USC Football

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Medicine... and USC Football

My parents always told me ...

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

My favorite memory ...

that time I did that thing... oh, what was it? I forget... nevermind.

My first job ...

pushing medical charts around a clinic for the summer

My inspiration ...

for writing came from my undergraduate writing professor, TC Boyle

Health & Fitness > Respiratory Diseases Tuberculosis still with us, despite medical advances

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From the Great Plague of the Middle Ages, to the Influenza Pandemic of the early 20th Century, to the fight against HIV today, disease is woven in to the fabric of our past, present and future. Tuberculosis may not have the obvious impact of the great pandemics of the past, but it greatly intertwined with our history, having claimed the lives of a myriad of famous names. Known also as "consumption", persons such as George Orwell, John Keats, and Robert Louis Stevenson all suffered, and died from, tuberculosis. Of course, it's important to mention that tuberculosis has also claimed the lives...

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