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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 .

In the high-stakes, high-volume world of medical school, efficiency isn't just a preference—it’s a survival tactic. Among the dense, encyclopedic tomes that populate a medical student's bookshelf, one title stands out for its ability to distill terror into trivia:

Years later, Dr. Marcus Wei, now an infectious disease fellow, kept a copy of that same edition in his on-call room. Not for studying—for teaching. He’d pull it out when interns were mystified by a tough case.