Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Respiratory illnesses are on the rise and spreading throughout South Texas. In a recent interview on KENS5, Jason Bowling, MD, and Jan Patterson, MD, shared how you can determine which illness you have and how to protect yourself against the threat of respiratory illnesses.
Dr. Jason Bowling is an Infectious Disease specialist seeing patients at UT Health San Antonio. He is also an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at UT Health San Antonio. After completing his residency in Internal Medicine, he worked as a hospitalist in private practice for five years before returning to fellowship to pursue subspecialty training in Infectious Diseases. He joined the Division of Infectious Diseases faculty in 2010. Since joining, he has maintained an active role as a clinician. He rotates as the attending faculty physician on the inpatient Infectious Diseases consult service, the inpatient HIV medicine ward team, and the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Clinic for which he is also the Medical Director.