Kimberly Blumenthal
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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Maybe they weren't allergic now.
So I have to bring them back, retest them.
And then these patients, they're like needles in haystacks, right?
We combed the records of all Mass General Brigham to find these 22 penicillin allergics.
We really need to say, okay, you reacted to penicillin in front of my face today.
Grab your blood and then send it to be able to know that they were true positives.
One of my mentors said to me, if you do your job well, you have no job.
And I'm like, I just don't think that's going to happen.
There's always something else.
We need better tests now, back to the basic science in the lab.
And then on the population level, we're thinking about implementing penicillinology evaluation in primary care.
We just created a measure of...
delabeled patients in our healthcare system.
And even just now that I can measure it, I can measure it in this clinic and that clinic, and I can see what types of interventions move the needle towards a higher percentage of delabeled patients.
Get tested, get tested.
I think it's possible and it's also possible that we could alter our drugs to be less allergenic.
We'd have to know what metabolite of the drug is forming bonds in our body to make the allergen.
And so it requires a lot of combined intelligence from different people.
Yeah, I would stop happy if we have some sort of way that like everybody knows if they can or cannot have penicillin or any drug or they're going to be allergic or not.
If we were able to correct the 30 million mislabels in just America, I'm happy.
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